A snow moon rears above a sycamore tree at Burrow Hill Cider Farm in Somerset, UK in the last decade of February 2024. (Photo by Jeff Overs/The Times)

Germany, Business couple making love under desk. (Photo by Roman Maerzinger/Getty Images)

Afghan children play at a brick-making factory on the outskirts of Jalalabad city, eastern Afghanistan on November 13, 2019. (Photo by Reuters/Parwiz)

Men at work at the Cardiff Institute, making huge baskets, unique in size and construction, for loading oil cake in South Africa. (Photo by Maeers/Getty Images). 1938

Commuters make their way through a flooded street after a heavy rain shower in Lahore on July 14, 2022. (Photo by Arif Ali/AFP Photo)

American singer and model Ciara in the second decade of March 2023 makes a very important phone call. (Photo by ciara/Instagram)

Northeastern girls getting commando training at the Delhi Police Training Centre, Jharoda Kalan on September 4, 2017 in New Delhi, India. For the first time ever, Delhi Police are providing commando training to 40 young women from the Northeast. Once the commando training is over, these girls will be a part of the «Parakram Vans», an initiative taken by Delhi Police against terrorism. (Photo by Manoj Verma/Hindustan Times via Getty Images)

All throughout history of mankind people were fascinated by time, its flow, and how to measure it. Thus, the science of horology can into being, as people invented more and more sophisticated ways of measuring the passage of time. Truly, it’s one of the most profound characteristics of being a human, to feel and to ponder the meaning of time, its properties, and will we ever be able to move through it, not with it. Now, however, horology is mainly referred to the art of mechanical watchmaking. (Photo by MB&F)