By Nita Berry Illustrated by B.G. Varma
ISBN-10: 8170118913
ISBN-13: 9788170118916
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The sun beat down bright and strong, making all living creatures scurry for the shade. Early man sat in the cool shadow of a leafy tree. He was armed with big hunting sticks and spears, but it was too hot to look for a meal that morning. He was content to lie there, chewing juicy bits of fruit. In a while, he was fast asleep. When he awoke, the sun was right overhead. He blinked hard. It seemed hotter than ever, for the shade had almost disappeared. Indeed, the shadow of the tree had shortened to a mere stump.
You can well imagine King Alfred spending long hours keeping vigil against enemy attacks, by watching his clock burn steadily in the dark. All this while, even as people devised the 51 1 Candlestick clock—candle is marked in hours strangest ways to tell time, others were trying to know more and more about the large number of stars in the sky every night. The science of astronomy was gradually developed through the study of stars and planets. A new way of telling time, by following star movements and patterns closely in the sky, was discovered.
D. the first mechanical clocks appeared in monasteries in Europe, and were operated by monks. They were enormous structures, often weighing several tonnes, and were made by unknown ironsmiths. These early contraptions did not have hands or a dial. They did not even strike the hour. They were used to alert somebody or to toll a bell that called monks to prayer. Their movements were simple and noisy, driven as they were by weights and wheels. Called 'turret clocks', these first clocks were nearly always placed on church or bell towers, so that everybody could see or at least hear them in the town.