Daily Rhythms

by Joan Carroll

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18.000 x 12.000 inches

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Daily Rhythms

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Joan Carroll

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I have read that the bell tower of Santa Maria Maggiore was famous in days past for setting the standard of Rome's clocks. This church is very close to the Basilica of St Mary of the Angels (inside the Baths of Diocletian in the Piazza della Rdpubblica) through which runs a meridian line. At the beginning of the eighteenth century, Pope Clement XI commissioned the astronomer, mathematician, archaeologist, historian and philosopher Francesco Bianchini to build a meridian line, a sort of sundial, within the basilica. Completed in 1702, the object had a threefold purpose: the pope wanted to check the accuracy of the Gregorian reformation of the calendar, to produce a tool to predict Easter exactly, and, not least, to give Rome a meridian line as important as the one Giovanni Domenico Cassini had recently built in Bologna's cathedral, San Petronio. The clock at Santa Maria Maggiore was thus a premodern Greenwich mean time for the city. However, the time in other churches around the city differed slightly as each tower's time was slightly different the farther you moved from this one!

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