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I am wanting the details for constructing "Su Sung's clock tower". Ideally the details would be good enough for me to reconstruct the tower.

 

This was a mechanism for measuring time, using dripping water, but also had an observation tower and model of the heavens.

 

Of course such a creation would involve knowledge of math, so whatever is known of the math used at the time would be appreciated. Is there a relationship between Su Sung's clock tower and the Mayan calander, other than a shared interest in the moverments of heaven? I have read, the Chinese I Ching fits perfectly in the middle of the Mayan matrix, and can be used for showing the location of 52 energy points recongized in the pressure point message technique of Jin Shin Jyutsu, so there appears to be a math connection between China and Mayan. I am pretty open to whatever information might be contributed to understanding the ancient consciousness on astrontogy, math and measuring time.

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from here

 

Thank you, but I can not make out the details from that picture. I assume the main frame is wood, and the water wheel and other pieces appear to be wood. The water wheel appears to have 24 spokes, so I assume it would move one hour at a time, and it turns clockwise. Does that seem right to you? obviously the water goes in the top and collects at the bottom, but was there a system for pumping the water back up? Were they able to control the water pressure and flow? What would be the function of the wheel behind the main water wheel? On the left of the wheel, what is that?

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some information here

 

This has been done. Someone must know everything about it.

 

HERE (go to page 230).

 

Original drawing by John Christiansen.

 

Thanks, you pushed me to see if I could find a better site and I hit the same wall- as you said, no one has been able to recreate a working Su Sung clock tower using the technology of his time.

 

http://www.thenagain.../SongClock.html

 

 

I think I am going to have to look for an easier project. The site I found gives more directions, but they are in Chinese.

 

The barbarians were better at keeping time? Here is a story that suggest they were http://www.j-bradford-delong.net/teaching_Folder/Econ_210a_Fall97/China_technology.html The Chinese presented the barbarian leader a birthday present a day early. Su Sung was honest about this when he reported back to the Empiror and the astromers who made the error were punished.

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