THE MILLENNIUM TIME PROJECT: ALTERNATIVE TIME MEASURING MECHANISMS

In the remote past from the embryo of human civilisation people needed means to measure time and tried various devices making many attempts to create such means. The conditions available then and the low level of social development and its habitual level of knowledge of nature and exact sciences made it almost impossible to create satisfactory methods and devices. Initially, people used several most easily available means such as the Sun, the Moon and seasonal peculiarities as for example the sn…