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The Story of Time

A large round clock face on an old stone tower, with gold numbers, rings of blue and orange, a golden sun on a pointer, and painted statues on each side.
The astronomical clock of Prague, first built in 1410.

Image: Photo: Godot13. The astronomical dial of the Prague Orloj, Old Town Hall, Prague · CC BY-SA 4.0

A Knaph story

The Story of Time

How people measured the hours, from star tables and water jars to atoms

c. 2100 BCE – today

Stars painted on coffin lids, a stolen sundial that was wrong for 99 years, a clock with two minute hands and a coral that remembers shorter days: how people learned to measure time.

A Knaph story

The Story of Time

How people measured the hours, from star tables and water jars to atoms

c. 2100 BCE – today

Stars painted on coffin lids, a stolen sundial that was wrong for 99 years, a clock with two minute hands and a coral that remembers shorter days: how people learned to measure time.

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