Timeline for Medieval ways to tell time, without a sun or stars
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| Jun 17, 2018 at 17:04 | comment | added | user20762 | @Trish the technology was there to use them, given the existence of the [Antikythera mechanism]{britannica.com/topic/Antikythera-mechanism) mechanical clocks are not out of the question. Much Roman and Greek knowledge was not lost during the dark ages, merely isolated. | |
| Jun 17, 2018 at 12:33 | comment | added | Trish | Complex clockwork mechanisms such as pendulum driven clocks were only invented past the renaissance, the most early clocks of mechanical design stem from the 1200s | |
| Jun 15, 2018 at 8:45 | comment | added | Kii | Foucault's Pendulum was my first tought too | |
| Jun 13, 2018 at 16:52 | history | answered | user20762 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |