Clockwork Nature

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On April 8, the gears of the solar system will click into place in a manner that is rare—but not unpredictable. The eclipse is a reminder that we live in a clockwork universe, and that our measurements of time’s passage here on Earth are always ultimately tied to observations of the heavens. For millennia, we’ve been building strange machines to tell time directly from the rhythms of nature. From sunflower clocks to moon dials, we’re going to explore the eccentric history of natural timepieces.

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