The clock that failed in the hour in 99 years
In Rome, a. C. The first watch of the city was placed in the third century. The device was achieved in Catania (Sicily), amidst a group of booty after an armed conflict during the First Punic War. Of course, one of the fundamental parameters for the operation of sunclocks is the location of the clock. The Romans knew it perfectly, but they also decided to put the spoils in the city.
There is a difference of more than four degrees between the two cities in latitude (Catania, 37.31°I; Rome, 41.53°I) and the clock is useless, at least for a correct hour.
However, they remained there for almost the entire century. As a comedy by Plauto says: “May the gods confuse the one who invented the hours and put a sundial in this city, because he has divided the day into tidy bits. When I was little, my only watch was my stomach, better and more reliable than any of ellos.Siempre I had to eat, except when there was nothing to eat.”
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