09-26-2021, 12:37 PM
(09-26-2021, 10:24 AM)Nathan Ross Wrote: Weirdly, Pliny seems to believe that there are 17 hours of summer daylight in Britain (NH 1.77)!
Accurate for York in mid summer, the other measurements he gives are also good if you assume Rome as Italy...
Ivor
"And the four bare walls stand on the seashore. a wreck a skeleton a monument of that instability and vicissitude to which all things human are subject. Not a dwelling within sight, and the farm labourer, and curious traveller, are the only persons that ever visit the scene where once so many thousands were congregated." T.Lewin 1867
"And the four bare walls stand on the seashore. a wreck a skeleton a monument of that instability and vicissitude to which all things human are subject. Not a dwelling within sight, and the farm labourer, and curious traveller, are the only persons that ever visit the scene where once so many thousands were congregated." T.Lewin 1867