While at the British museum, the second gallery that I chose to view was of the watches. Three rooms displaying the history of watches. While there it occurred to me that the people who actually felt the need of keeping time and those who actually started making watches were the monks! They needed some instrument to help them be faithful to their recitation of prayers at fixed times - the watch!
Some interesting models of watches...
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| The farmer with the staff pointed the time on a dial on which he is standing. The cow being milked would actually squirt milk at fixed hours. Such was the mechanism timed and created! |
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