Solstice Time
Category: SCIENCE
The 12-hour Babylonian solar day persisted into our era because it was embedded in culture too,  especially where the culture was agrarian. The deficiencies of Berossas' clock, so evident to us, may have escaped its users. I find a hint of this in a 1909 travel book, High Albania, by the intrepid Edith Durham.
By Marjorie Senechal, ContributorProfessor, Mathematics and History of Science and Technology, ..., 2014-06-17