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# Why is it coldest at dawn and before morning, of all the hours of the day?
- URL: https://theparnassian.com/en/dlia-chego-na-zore-i-pod-utro-kholodnee-vsekh-chasov-v-sutkakh/
- Published: 2023-11-06T06:03:04.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-01T05:35:25.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
- Tags: Archive, Books, Science, Humour

Why is it coldest at dawn and before morning, of all the hours of the day? So an unknown inquirer asks Paul Taverner, Rector of the University of Lyon, in 1597.

But we already know that the darkest hour is just before the dawn. Thanks be to Benjamin Disraeli or to Horace Slughorn, as you prefer.