Can your sundial really tell the time?
“I am a sundial, and I make a botch
Of what is done far better by a watch”
So wrote Hilaire Belloc, but is this really fair? Sundials are the earliest known form of time-keeping having been used for some five thousand years.
The Greek historian Herodotus stated that sundials were first used by the Chaldeans and Sumerians in Babylonia, which was part of the modern Iraq.… Read More
