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    very little is known of their history. It is known that the ancient Chinese developed a form of sundials c. 800 BCE, and the sundials eventually evolved...
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    are several different types of sundials. Some sundials use a shadow or the edge of a shadow while others use a line or spot of light to indicate the time...
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    time of day. Hence there are no hour lines on the dial and the time of day is read only on the ellipse. As with most sundials, analemmatic sundials mark...
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    oscillatory processes, such as the swing of pendulums. Oscillating timekeepers are used in modern timepieces. Sundials and water clocks were first used in...
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    Many sundials bear a motto to reflect the sentiments of its maker or owner. Be as true to each other as this dial is to the sun. Begone about Thy business...
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    Retrieved 24 December 2019. "Sundial - Encyclopedia Britannica". Britannica. Retrieved 28 June 2024. History of sundials Laurence, Ray (2006). Roman Pompeii:...
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    original on 1 March 2023. Retrieved 1 March 2023. R. H. van Gent. "A History of the International Date Line". Webspace.science.uu.nl. Archived from the...
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    Hourglass (section History)
    1088/0143-0807/17/3/001. Anthony John Turner (1993). Of Time and Measurement: Studies in the History of Horology and Fine Technology. Ashgate Publishing Company...
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    Herodotus's attribution of the invention of the sundial to the Babylonians in 430 BCE, the earliest known sundials were simple gnomons of Egyptian origin invented...
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    The purpose of these so-called sundial guns is to announce the arrival of noon. Mayall, R. Newton; Margaret W. Mayall (14 June 2012). Sundials: Their Construction...
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    the hours. Sundials can be horizontal, vertical, or in other orientations. Sundials were widely used in ancient times. With knowledge of latitude, a...
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    Gnomon (category Sundials)
    Mayall, Margaret W., Sundials: Their Construction and Use, Dover Publications, Inc., 1994, ISBN 0-486-41146-X Waugh, Albert E., Sundials: Their Theory and...
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  • quotes of Diodorus's opinions on the meaning of a term. Alexandria Analemma Euclid History of sundials Diodorus of Alexandria." Complete Dictionary of Scientific...
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    Simson at Kirktonhall, West Kilbride. A Scottish Sundial at Ardrossan's Civic Centre Sundials of Scotland - a website for Scottish sundials by Dennis Cowan...
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    Issue) for Yellott's biography. "sundials.org". sundials.org. "Selected Sundials of Arizona". North American Sundial Society. Retrieved 28 November 2015...
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    The Sundial Bridge (also known as the Sundial Bridge at Turtle Bay) is a cantilever spar cable-stayed bridge for bicycles and pedestrians that spans the...
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    in many areas of technology. According to Hossam Elanzeery, they were the first civilization to use timekeeping devices such as sundials, shadow clocks...
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    (1938). Sundials: Their construction and use (3rd ed.). Cambridge, MA: Sky Publishing. ISBN 0-933346-71-9. Rohr, R.R.J. (1996). Sundials: History, theory...
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    The history of watches began in 16th-century Europe, where watches evolved from portable spring-driven clocks, which first appeared in the 15th century...
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  • and is one of three remaining sundials designed by him left in the world. The Sundial was founded in 1911 by several students in the style of other previously...
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    Mecca. In a treatise about astrolabes and sundials, al-Ashraf includes several paragraphs on the construction of a compass bowl (ṭāsa). He then uses the...
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    Reckoning in the Medieval World – A study of Anglo – Saxon and early Norman Sundials. Great Britain, British Sundial Society 2010, pp. 46–46. Richard Fletcher...
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    The history of creationism relates to the history of thought based on the premise that the natural universe had a beginning, and came into being supernaturally...
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    sphere at the top of the pillar. "Pelican Sundial" is a misnomer, as the pillar contains 27 separate sundials. Nine of the sundials are found easily:...
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    Tide dial (redirect from Canonical sundials)
    scratch dial, is a sundial marked with the canonical hours rather than or in addition to the standard hours of daylight. Such sundials were particularly...
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    Diptych (category Ivory works of art)
    Albert E. Waugh (1973), Sundials:Their Theory and Construction, Dover, ISBN 0-486-22947-5 Rene J. Rohr (1996), Sundials:History Theory and Practice, Dover...
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  • Gnomonics (category Sundials)
    meaning 'interpreter, discerner') is the study of the design, construction and use of sundials. The foundations of gnomonics were known to the ancient Greek...
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    Astronomical rings (category Sundials)
    rings are mounted on a plinth, like armillary spheres, and can be used as sundials. The dial is suspended from a cord or chain; the suspension point on the...
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    instrument, it is a compilation of five different instruments) Nadi Valaya Yantra (two sundials on different faces of the instrument, the two faces representing...
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    Lida Lopes Cardozo Kindersley (category Members of the Order of the British Empire)
    has cut a number of sundials on public buildings including Selwyn College and Pembroke College, Cambridge. In her work on sundials Lida has collaborated...
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