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Misha Glenny chooses the first of his archive picks - bringing back classic conversations from the In Our Time archive, every Monday. Humans have tried to calculate, regulate, and measure time for thousands of years: from systems based on tracking sunrise and sunset, to the invention of increasingly precise mechanical alarm clocks and astrolabes. In this archive episode, first released in March 2012, Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the methods used to measure time throughout human history. Early civilisations used the movements of heavenly bodies to tell the time, but in the ancient world there were also sophisticated timekeeping devices...
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This BBC podcast is supported by ads outside the UK. and I'm going to show you how to make a business with your customers. I'm going to show you how to make a television. Tell me how to make a television with your customers.
I'm going to show you how to make a television. hosted by Melvin Bragg that I think deserves another listen. And you'll still find brand new episodes of In Our Time every Thursday. For the first in this series of archive editions, we're starting with an episode on the measurement of time. Measuring time starts with the sun, the moon and the stars, in that order, unless you're indigenous to the Arctic,
in which case the last two often muscle out the first. But did you know why we then started measuring ours in multiples of 60? Or that water dripping into a bowl determined how long you were allowed to speak in court? We've only been measuring time with any accuracy for about 500 years.
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