Tracer wrote;"Uh ... you do realize, don't you, that in Sir Isaac Newton's time they didn't have accurate clocks? It took a couple of centuries before anyone invented a mechanical clock that didn't lose or gain a few minutes each day."

It is not that I fault you for being careless with history but that I have a genuine fondness for the achievements of my race and especially when our predecessors suffer diminunition of their achievements,we are the ones who have become primitive ,undisciplined and almost ignorant.

http://explorers.whyte.com/hours.htm

Anyway,astronomers could set their clocks off noon each day by applying the astronomical correction to their clocks,with each axial rotation they could reset the clock again using the same Equation.

http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/on-l...gens/page4.asp

Why did you come up with your statement without checking it first yourself,you could have found this out as indeed anyone else can.All the posts here are the same,the stuff can be easily referenced.