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Even where temporal hours continued to be used (especially in monasteries), the mechanical clock was used. This required two different settings for the day and for the night, or one clock each for the day and the night. For the latter, the speed of the
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Due to the continuous change of the duration of daylight over the course of the year, the duration of the day division, i.e. the temporal day hours and the temporal night hours, also changes over the year.
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created during the transition to the equal-duration equinoctial hours display temporal hours in addition to the new equal-duration hours.
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periods of time because days are longer and nights shorter in summer than in winter. Their use in everyday life was replaced in the late
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Temporal hours were common in many cultures. A division of day and night into twelve hours each was first recorded in
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shows the temporal hours on curved golden lines: respective end of the hour indicated with a black number.
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Hieratische Papyri aus Tebtunis I (Carsten Niebuhr Institute of Ancient Eastern Studies Copenhagen)
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Temporaluhren: Die Suche nach mechanischen Uhren, die mit Temporalstunden liefen.
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Temporaluhren: Die Suche nach mechanischen Uhren, die mit Temporalstunden liefen.
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The temporal hours of day and night are equal only at the spring and autumn
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era. They had particular relevance in the fixed daily schedule of the
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A system where hour lengths are unequal or not all 60 minutes
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Zeit und Kultur. Geschichte des Zeitbewusstseins in Europa
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Jahresschrift der deutschen Gesellschaft für Chronometrie.
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For the display of temporal hours almost exclusively the
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A clock that displays the temporal hours is called a
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for the simultaneous display of temporal (black) and
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