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Re:Elephant Clock by nicheasta on Friday July 13, 2018 @08:01AM (#17522137)
And how is the disk at the top rotated? I'm talking about the one that shows the number of hours since the sunrise.
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Re:Elephant Clock by smudgymcscmudge on Friday July 13, 2018 @09:18AM (#17522663)
I was wondering the same thing. The wikipedia article discusses it a bit under the heading “passage of temporal hours”, but I couldn’t visualize it. I was hoping the video would clarify that.
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Re:Elephant Clock by cicero on Friday July 13, 2018 @12:14PM (#17524208)
It appears that the dropping ball does something to advance it.
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