This morning I took the Funicolare This is a funicular railway in Genoa connecting the Largo della Zecca, on the edge of Genoas historic centre to several stations on the slope of the Righi hill.
After reaching Righi I walked up a hill and found a Planetarium which in plain English is a theatre devoted to education and entertainment in astronomy and space science.
I found some very interesting information and pictures of sightings which have taken place in the Planetarium. My favourite was one taken during the equinox.
I also found some information on a board about the use of water clocks to measure time. Ive always been very interested in how different civilizations have measured time. I remember back in primary school when we were doing a really interesting project on the Egyptians and we were learning about the tools the Egyptians had discovered, one of which was a water clock.
When I was 17 I remember writing a poem about time and how civilzations had measured it over time, and I questioned how we can know for sure that time even exists. I think my poem was influenced by
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