(May 5, 2016 at 2:03 pm)Stimbo Wrote:(May 5, 2016 at 1:08 pm)Drich Wrote: glob...
And how did one measure one rotation around the sun, when it was thought the sun revolved around the earth?
Doesn't matter from the pov of someone on this planet. Note where the Sun rises on a particular day, record how it rises in a different place half a year later, work out the difference until it begins again. All you need is a clear sky and a reason to notice such things - say an agrarian economy.
But again if cultures don't count days??? What if a culture counts evening as the start of the day and the moon's position at the start of the day? Or again what if one counts harvest cycles? What if you could get two or three harvest cycles out of a 365 day period?
The point is not to try and make these societies conform to our understanding of what a year is, but to contextually read and understand how there 'time cycles'/years worked. then divide or multiply to translate into how our years work.
