Episode 02

The Rhythm of Day

Agriculture and the daily cycle

An agricultural museum becomes a score of human rhythms: milking, market, moon, harvest. The day is the unit the body already keeps.

Beats

• Canonical hours and the monastery as a time machine.
• Market weeks that are not seven days.
• Seasonal labour as a calendar written in muscle.

Terms

Solar day

Interval between successive noons.

Equation of time

The running disagreement between sundial and mean clock.

Discussion

1. Which daily tasks in your life still follow the Sun rather than the clock?
2. What happens to a farm when a week is imposed from a distant capital?