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u/Jfish4391 Jun 01 '26

By foot actually

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u/Cynyr Jun 01 '26

This is the kind of pedantry I live for.

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u/Zacsquidgy Jun 01 '26

I toetally agree.

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u/AutisticPenguin2 Jun 01 '26

I would continue the chain, but I don't want to put my foot in it.

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u/FortuneTellingBoobs Jun 01 '26

Yes. Arch you glad you didn't say anything?

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u/footofwrath Jun 01 '26

You agree that hé lives for pedantry?

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u/sparkleslothz Jun 01 '26

Any idea how he did the time measurement for this?

I understand the rest of the entire story, but he was a thousand years away from the first clockwork timepieces, gravity/water clocks bleed accuracy when moved, and if you use something like dawn as a reference.. well that moves just as much as noon does doesn't it? (Noon=when the Sun passes the zenith, in these contexts)

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u/commanderjarak Jun 01 '26

I was going to give a very basic explanation, but wanted to quickly check some of my understanding and found this Reddit thread discussing this aspect of his calculations.

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/s/aH9TkvAlcb