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Kind of hypnotic
They were looking at the Astronomic Clock on the Gothic Town Hall
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The Astronomic Clock with Horologe
One of the best known sights of Prague, the Astronomic Clock on the southern wall of the Gothic Town Hall, delights its viewers as each hour strikes with a morality play performed by a 17-puppet cast. The 12 Apostles parade out of their window, a skeleton representing Death reverses an hourglass, the Greed and the Turk mock him, and a cock crows when it is all over. The clock is also a wonder of technology in its own right. The clock mechanism is a work of Mikulas of Kadan from 1410. The upper dial shows the hour the usual way, as well as the hour calculated from sunset to sunset. The inner dial with zodiac signs shows the current position of the sun, the moon and the planets. The lower dial is divided into 365 ticks, which make a full circle each year. The clock was rebuilt in its current form by Master Hanus in 1490. Legend has it that the Town Hall failed to pay him (others say he was blinded to make sure he did not build a copy of his clock elsewhere), so he scaled the tower, threw a spell in the works, and died on the spot. No one was able to fix the bug until 1572.
Yesterday I came back from a weekend in Prague. While I was there I didn't drop the camera down for a single second so this is the reason for the unusual big batch of pictures.
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I was standing on top floor of the astronomic clock at the center of old Prague
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