RiAus- Passing time John Ward, Margaret Folkard, Stephen Quigg

Wednesday 18 November 6.30-8.00pm The Science Exchange, Exchange Place, Adelaide Free, RiAus and Archaeology Society SA Members, $10/7 (Non members and concessions)

>From years to days to seconds to Planck time. From the ancients to the present, humans have measured time for a variety of reasons – all of them important. Throughout recorded history, telling the time with ever increasing accuracy has become more and more vital to our daily lives. Join physicist / gnomonist John Ward, Margaret Folkard (of Sundials Australia) and Stephen Quigg, National Measurement Institute, as they demonstrate how ancient societies measured and created their own context of time from the Neolithic era, right through to the present day. In association with the Archaeology Society, SA Friends

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