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• n  timepiece that indicates the daylight hours by the shadow that the gnomon casts on a calibrated dial

• The stone curves and pillars of the observatory worked in conjunction with its massive sundial to measure time, forecast eclipses and determine the positions of stars and planets.
• The stone curves and pillars of the observatory worked in conjunction with its massive sundial to create one of the most reliable and accurate scientific instruments of the day .
• His latest work is more passive than interactive: he's designing a Hawaiian home that is also a sundial.

News & Articles

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• Make your own sundial at Environmental Center workshop
  Art, science and history unite in sundial workshopBefore clocks and watches began dominating our lives, people depended on more natural ways of telling time.Sands through the hourglass were the days of our lives. Water flowing out one vessel into another marked time.And so too did the sun. Man devel...
  June 20, 2013 - Lancaster Online

Quotes

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• Billy Zane in Contactmusic.com
  Zane adds, "They took the light fittings, the well, the sundial, everything in the brochure. I sympathise with their attachment, but they can't take everything."
• Ebenezer Denny in Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
  I have his (gun) powder horn and his sundial on a bear's tooth chain,said Denny, 55, a retired crane repair supervisor for Allegheny Ludlum Steel in Harrison.
• Sonny Jurgensen in Washington Post
  Except Sam calls it a sundial,Sonny says.