Time appears to be neglected Moon complicated everything Early years "The evening and the morning were the second day" "The time has come" Now we have Babylon, and a long time further on we reach the cavemen "Twentyfour hours" is a clumsy mode of expression Sunrise, noon and sunset There are 360 days,"--a slightly inaccurate calculation Egyptians expended a great deal of ingenuity and scientific care in their construction In antiquity, sand glasses were much less important than water clocks Rome had no method of reckoning time other than by sunrise, noon and sunset Astronomers in the Middle Ages used the pointers of the seven star Great Bear With an astrolabe the trained men could tell direction, the hour and minute, the end of twilight Time and longitude are complementary With the advent of mechanical devices, the water clocks disappeared From summer to winter the change is gradual and slow The Sun's passage through the equinox was invented by the Chinese The Babylonians used a single peg with three concentric circles In the countries outside Egypt the equinoctial cult prevailed Along the ecliptic lies the belt known as the zodiac The distance of the Sun from the equator is called its "declination" Sun's changing declination is the variable length of days The center of gravity of the solar system is within the Sun Monotheism had a short life in the Valley of the Nile Apollo and Adonis and Helios were Greek gods of the Sun Early studies in the nature of light The Chinese observed sunspots in ancient times The little "rings with wings" The Moon is linked with the oldest and most persistent superstitions in the old days the sight of Earthshine was considered an evil portent, a prophet of disaster The Moon goddesses showed the usual carelessness of all variable people In its action, the Moon is irregular