IN OUR on a regular basis lives, time is a treasured commodity. We are able to achieve it or lose it. We are able to save, spend or waste it. If our crimes are revealed, we danger doing time.
However it’s, in fact, one thing we are able to measure. Certainly, clocks have, over the centuries, been the high-tech artefacts of their period – the water clock, the pendulum clock, Harrison’s chronometer, all the way in which as much as the unbelievable precision of atomic clocks.
Earlier than there was a dependable calendar of…