Roman Portable Sundials: The Empire in Your Hand Educational Obsessed by creating life itself

Obsessed by creating life itself

including two not previously available in Penguin: 'The Donnington Affair'

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Level & Subject: GCSE 9-1

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Roman Portable Sundials: The Empire in Your Hand Educational Obsessed by creating life itselfIn an unscientific era when maps were rarities, how did ancient Romans envisage their far flung empire? This was done by various means for certain, including with the aid of an ingenious type of portable sundial that has barely attracted notice. As the Romans understood before the first century BCE, to track the passage of the sun across the sky hour by hour one needed to know one's latitude and the time of year, and that, furthermore, sundials did