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Oh my. After about a single night of that I would invent a water clock.
by krisoft 4y ago
Oh my. After about a single night of that I would invent a water clock.
- SketchySeaBeast 4y agoConsidering water clocks date back to 1500 BCE it wouldn't be hard.
- red-iron-pine 4y agoSo what did the monks in the pre-1500s do?
- ben_w 4y agoBC, there were no Christian monks for at least another 15 centuries after the κλεψύδρα was invented.
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- SketchySeaBeast 3y agoUnbelievably, there were very few medieval monks before the birth of Christ.
- bandrami 4y agoThey had them! But Benedictines were required to do some things the hard way. Dominicans and Franciscans just set an alarm and went to sleep.
- taneq 3y agoYou're not a monk, though. The tedium and inconvenience is the point.