It’s been a year like no other folks, so its definitely time for a chill out vid. Do please enjoy this ’1000 hours’ style mega edit of the Byzantine Sundial Calendar project.
Without doubt, I have never felt more relaxed than watching this 27 minutes sail by.
Thank you for tuning in, have a very Merry Christmas, and a Happy New Year, and I’ll catch you all in 2021.
Cheers,
Chris.
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Build info: The build is a modernised interpretation of the original sundial-calendar artefact currently located in the London Science Museum . The original artefact is currently regarded as the second oldest geared mechanism on the historical record (after the Antikythera Mechanism), and is loosely dated to around 500AD.
As the name suggests, it’s a combination portable sundial and lunar calendar mechanism. In addition to being a portable sundial, it comput