How To Use Sundial In A Sentence
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In the modern era, however, neither astronomy, nor surveying, nor gunnery, nor gnomonics (the making of sundials), nor most of the other disciplines represented in this collection of instruments, could be called a branch of mathematics in any straightforward or unqualified way, even though they all make some use of mathematical techniques.
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I have always dreamed of doing an exhibition of sundials and this is my chance.
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The sundial developed into a more accurate instrument with the introduction of the hemispherical sundial around 300 BC.
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The upper shelf contains a celestial globe, and several extremely specialized scientific instruments: quadrants, sundials, and a torquetum (a timepiece and navigational aid).
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Further back, the Chinese and the Romans used clepsydras (water clocks) at about the same time, although Egyptian sundials go further back.
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We kidded some of the slower contestants about timing them with a sundial or a calendar, but they took our joking in stride.
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Multiple sundials were situated in strategic locations along the terraces, capturing the sun's light as it made its daily path across the sky.
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The map's meridians of longitude would serve as the sundial's hour lines, creating a union of time and space for that particular location — something no dialist or clockmaker had ever before achieved ...
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The sundial is available in two versions, for use in either hemisphere.
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Like a giant sundial, it demarcates both space and time.
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He set up his theodolite to get the bearings for the sundial and indicated its orientation on a north-south line.
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She thrust a taut finger to the sundial in the center of the courtyard.
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But once his eyes adjusted, he could see an area of shade, matching the arm of a sundial.
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The sundial is a device that measures time by marking the shadow cast by the position of the sun onto a dial, usually a flat disc.
Joe Perez
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Mrs Thelwell secured retrospective planning permission to put up a new staircase and partition wall at Sundial House as councillors accepted the work had not resulted in any material harm.
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Stonework and plasterwork have been lovingly repaired, and a traditional sundial remade.
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The problem is that the gardeners have been caught on the gnomon of their own sundial.
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We know of experiments he made with sundials, probably in 1646, and also a pasteboard model of the solar system which exhibited his artistic as well as astronomical skills.
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Stonework and plasterwork have been lovingly repaired, and a traditional sundial remade.
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There was a sundial, and four bells, and 284 bodies buried in the churchyard.
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There will also be a range of activities such as mini-digs, designing and making stucco mouldings, and constructing a sundial.
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The oval pocket sundial is made of gilded brass, and measures 4.8 centimetres across the major axis.
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A simple, sparse arena populated by a sundial and small bench gives the actors freedom to explore the text's complexities.
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One of the most efficient ways to tell time, a simple mechanism that needs no cogwheels, no pendulum, no springs and no winding: to follow the shadow of the sun cast upon a numbered scale in what is known as a sundial or a sun clock.
Barcelona Photoblog
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The gnomonics is the science of sundials.
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Man-made clocks work on timescales that are very short by evolutionary standards – hours, minutes, seconds – and the time-dependent processes they use are fast: the swinging of a pendulum, the swivelling of a hairspring, the oscillation of a crystal, the burning of a candle, the draining of a water vessel or an hourglass, the rotation of the earth registered by a sundial.
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Would that one-of-a-kind statue, a Druid sundial or English staddle stone be just the finishing touch to complete your work of art?
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This is what's called a sundial cannon, or a noon cannon.
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Be prepared for a stiff climb, but the sundial and the view of Houghton and Hillbrow is worth the huffing and puffing.
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Money and materials were in short supply so the hard landscaping tended to be of concrete or recycled brick, with any ornament such as a bird bath, sundial or planter being constructed from the unwanted items of war that littered our world.
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In addition to gravestones, Hummelstown stone was fashioned into pedestals for urns, sundials, clocks, and door stops.
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Although the Romans were backward in the science of gnomonics and slow to adopt any particular form of horologe, they eventually constructed many beautiful sundials of various designs.
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The sundial was surrounded by seven figures, all wearing the same, dreary, corroded cloaks, faces hidden under dragging hoods.
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Christopher Wren's great fire Monument in the City of London is to be surrounded bulwarked by this bizarre, pleated accordion mirror-building which will leave only the tip of the Monument visible, serving as part of a giant sundial.
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In the center of the monument, a sundial would be erected.
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East of the sundial is a hoary old sycamore, sole survivor of three sisters, carefully protected by railings, under whose grateful shade, says local tradition, Johnson and Goldsmith were wont to chat.
Lippincott's Magazine Of Popular Literature And Science Old Series, Vol. 36—New Series, Vol. 10, July 1885
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Time crept as slowly as the shadow on a sundial and my precious dreams were jigsawed around me.
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On top of the gnomon on our sundial is a silver ball with three sets of holes, which allows the sun to shine through pairs of lenses near each solstice or equinox.
Museum Blogs
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For, as you may have guessed, the sundial is a symbol.
Penguin Persons & Peppermints
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In the center of the parking lot was a towering white building, casting a shadow like a gargantuan sundial.
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Time can be measured exactly by clocks and sundials, but human beings can rarely measure time accurately, for the feeling of the passage of time varies in each human being, and even then is not constant but varies with moods and events.
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In the bright desert sunlight, the whole place acts as a giant internalized sundial, with light slowly moving over the polished concrete floors and the wonderfully richly textured earth walls.
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Quantity considered in the movements of the celestial bodies is geometrical astronomy; from which arise cosmography or description of the universe, which is divided into uranography or description of the heavens, hydrography or description of waters, and geography; whence also arise chronology and gnomonics, or the art of constructing sundials.
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I looked over at the sundial and saw it was late morning.
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As he hiked along, he thought of how to develop a new universal altitude sundial from a simple nomogram or abac by J. Mandl.
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Constructed almost three centuries ago, its 73-foot-tall sundial is the largest in the world:
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When the sundial is positioned so that both hour scales tell the same time it is orientated to the meridian and the time is revealed.
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The remaining materials that have been found in this building, such as votives, a sundial, basins, lamps, and other finds, could have been used in the last phase.
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The obscure name I revere the most is gnomon, which is the upright part of a sundial that casts the shadow.
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A tall, thin, basalt head of Caelus Nin, Sumifan god of time and patron of the ancestors formed the sundial's double-faced gnomon and stood silent entry at the village's main gate.
Song of Time
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However, sundials are a surprisingly unreliable means of telling the time.
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The poem as philosophical-historical sundial clearly applies to great European lyric poets such as Rilke and Celan.
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To ensure that the sundial registered roughly the correct time all the year round the gnomon had to be set at exactly the correct angle.
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In the inner courtyard an attractive sundial catches the eye of the visitor.
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Sundial maker Malcolm Barnfield and stonemason Dave Baguley installed the beautiful stone sundial at the top north-west corner of The Wilds, on Sunday, 8 May.
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Over thousands of years, the accuracy of maps didn't improve significantly faster than the accuracy of primitive timepieces such as the sundial or water clock.
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Sundial maker Malcolm Barnfield and stonemason Dave Baguley installed the beautiful stone sundial at the top north-west corner of The Wilds, on Sunday, 8 May.
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While hard landscaping, water features, sundials, statuary and the like will constitute fixtures and fittings, free standing furniture can be taken with you when you move.
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Two incomplete writings regarding the mathematics and design of sundials, including one by the architectural writer Vitruvius, have survived, reinforcing the notion that gnomonics was indeed an active area of mathematical pursuit.
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There will also be a range of activities such as mini-digs, designing and making stucco mouldings, and constructing a sundial.
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Guarini was therefore proficient in the French tradition of stone cutting using most difficult procedures, as well as gnomonics, or the study of sundials, devoting many published pages to each discipline.
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Apparently, Rawls hasn't considered the fact that many Muslims already know when the exact prayer times are each day - obviating the need for a "sundial" - or what happens on an overcast day and the "sundial" can't be used - I grew up a few hundred miles away from the site of the Memorial, and am well familiar with that part of Pennsylvania and its climate.
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Upon receiving the sundial, my friend was exceptionally pleased with the unique gift.
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She laughed, then looked at the grey sundial that sat outside her window.
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These close up in strong sunshine, and give the plant its other names of poor man's weatherglass and shepherd's sundial.
Times, Sunday Times
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Male speaker It's an artifact and a working sundial.
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Early tools, such as the sundial, began to create objective standardization but still lacked precision.
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Its massive sundials and other structures are a geometry of red sandstone inlaid with dazzling white marble, more like works of modern art than scientific instruments.
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Tory was pleased to notice that his eyes had drifted to the number four on the sundial, Alma's place in the circle of twelve.
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He developed the hemicyclium, a sundial which has the hour lines drawn on the surface of a conic section giving greater accuracy.
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He was also interested in hydrodynamics and hydraulics and he moved on from making sundials to invent other machinery, in particular pumps.
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She searched first the area by the sundial, but there was only a couple embracing in the moonlight.
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He placed a pole perfectly upright in the ground to make a simple sundial, or gnomon.
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Originally a mechanical engineer, he developed his interest in sundials nine years ago and has made more than 2 000 dials.
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There will also be a range of activities such as mini-digs, designing and making stucco mouldings, and constructing a sundial.
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The sundial's nocturnal counterpart, the water clock, was designed to measure temporal hours at night.
