Rome’s First Sundial Kept the Wrong Time
100 years
The sundial was looted from Sicily in 264 BC and brought to Rome without adjustment for Rome’s latitude. It displayed the wrong time for a century, and the error was discovered only in 164 BC.
Why Rome's first sundial told the wrong time
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