Tom Scott

The Equation of Time: Clocks Vs Sundials (2014x65)

Ημερομηνία προβολής: Ιουν 20, 2014

A few centuries ago, the arbiter of "local noon" wasn't the mechanical clock, it was the sundial. The pseudoscientific-sounding "equation of time" is how you convert between the two -- and perhaps not the way you'd expect.