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Issue 52 | April 2020
Issue 52 | April 2020
Prague’s astronomical clock was finished in 1410
and is the oldest clock in the world that’s still ticking | Nikada, Istock
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Tamar HaYardeni
Autodidact Moshe Shapira emerged from Jerusalem’s ultra-Orthodox Me’a She’arim as an expert in both astronomy and sundials. Two of his sun clocks can still be seen in Jerusalem, but it was the one he refused to make that sent him into self-
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