Chapter 4
Modern sundials boasted, "I only count these" which announces the obvious limitation of the sundial for measuring time.
The sunny hours
'From _____ Time to Clock Time' - the title of part 2
Sun
This phrase is where we get the shortened "O'clock" from.
Of the clock
This famous astronomer was supposedly distracted during his prayers by the swinging of the altar lamp.
Galileo Galilei
This chapter is titled Making Time ______.
Portable
These became fashionable to carry around, but by then the clock and the watch existed and were more convenient and useful in every way.
Pocket sundial
"When I was a boy, my ______ was my sun-dial, one more sure, Truer, and more exact than any of them." - Plautus
Belly
This type of clock was installed in the garden of the Palais Royal in 1786, and it automatically saluted the sun at its apex.
Cannon clock.
This man was the winner of 10,000 pounds for finding longitude at sea.
John Harrison
The amount of prize money that a person could potentially win for discovering an easy way to calculate Longitude at sea.
20,000 pounds
This type of clock came after the sundial, making it easier to tell time during the night when the sun wasn't out.
Water
The new sense of time which came with the portable clock - ever smaller, gravity free, in a pocket or on the ______ - would fill all the interstices of life.
Wrist
This specific prayer was to be said at sunset. the Latin name is Hora Vesperalis.
Vespers :)
This Italian architect seems to have made a spring-driven clock about 1410.
Brunelleschi
This new type of portable clock had many dramatic shapes such as skulls, eggs, prayer books, crucifixes, dogs, lions, or pigeons.
Spring-driven clocks
Subdivisions were made by dividing the day into 4 parts. this part of the day came after Morning and before Afternoon.
Forenoon
Here was man's _______ __ __________from the sun, new proof of his mastery over himself and his surroundings.
Declaration of Independence
This was the basic invention that made all modern clocks possible.
the "escapement"
This admiral, the very model of a heroic sea captain, went down with his crew and ship.
Sir Clowdisley Shovell
Until the early seventeenth century spring driven clocks were not enclosed or protected from this or moisture thus damaging the clocks.
Dust
The gate of the Great Mosque at Damascus was adorned with a water clock that required the full time of this many men to run.
11
"That you may once for all sate your oratory and your thirst, we beg you, Caecilianus, now to ______ out of the water clock!" - the Roman wit Martial
Drink
This year was the first time in history that an 'hour' took on a precise, year-round, everywhere meaning.
1330
This man made the machines to test the theories that William Petty, Christopher Wren, and Robert Boyle were developing.
Robert Hooke
Anchorsmith turned clockmaker, William Clement, devised an "anchor" escapement adapted from these of an inverted anchor.
flukes