Eventually these were superseded by "small clock", or French, hours, which split the day into two 12-hour periods commencing at midnight.
最终,这些被“小钟”——即法语中说的小时取代了,它把一天分成两个12小时的时间段,从午夜开始。
Reasonably accurate for the time, that is quite close to today's value of 149,597,870 km, determined by radar, which has now superseded transits and all other methods in accuracy.
First came the steamboat; although flatboats and keelboats continued to be important until the 1850's steamboats eventually superseded all other craft in the carrying of passengers and freight.