| Re: How to measure time in a medieval world?
Waterclocks were used by the Egyptians several centuries BC and simple weight-driven clocks had appeared in Europe by the very late 1200s/early 1300s, with spring-driven clocks appearing in the 1500s... Harun al Raschid, caliph of Baghad, is meant to have sent the Frankish emperor Charlemagne a clock in the year 801, and the Chinese had functioning clock towers around the year 1000. |