1333(580)-1441(688) (Ætas ab Brian)

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Next was Numerivs Cilo From Hispania Tarraconensis at 53. He did nothing of consequence, though 20 years into his rule an ADA in Germania Superior developed the first mechanical timepiece, called a cloca, based on the slow unwinding of springs; the face’s upper hemisphere devoted to day hours, and the bottom hemisphere for night hours. This brought up strange realisations within a few years. When before, sundials had always told the time based on the sun’s shadows, giving the hour, the cloca was set at the same speed of the sundial, it was found that throughout the year the length of a day varied. This was a suspicion of many for many years but the clocai were proved to be consistent in their time keeping again and again with many mechanisms set up in experiment. It now turned out that in reality, the sun and seasons were unreliable for giving the day. A significant change to how time was perceived had to be considered. Many thought it would be a needless waste of effort, but the cloca had the advantage over sundials of not requiring a sun, to face north, or even it to be daytime; as well as better than water clocks with needing only a winding key to keep them running, as well as well as being partially portable while still telling the time. It could make time more standardized and many scholars went to Cilo, advising the usefulness of installing them empire wide. Now in his late 70’s, Cilo was weary of the helftly large timepices and found them useless if they were not part of every city and town, and each was kept wound up, and there were mechanators residing in those cities to maintain the cloca’s integrity, and everyone learnt how to read one. The ADA would continue work. Cilo died at 81 in 1361(608).