Horology

Teachers' plans for a class on timekeeping devices.

Horology in Ancient Rome.

Let's take a trip through time, from the epoch when farmers told time by looking at the sun to today, when atoms tell us the time.

Covers a wide range of topics, including the physical sciences, technology, and experimental archaeology in the SCA.

In 1434, Michael of Rhodes began to compile a manuscript that would demonstrate his personal mastery of the art of navigation. The text contains Michael's service record, over 200 pages of commercial and calendrical computations, a beautifully illustrated section on astrology, some of the earliest surviving portolan aids to navigation, and the world's first known treatise on shipbuilding.