Definitionn. timepiece that indicates the daylight hours by the shadow that the gnomon casts on a calibrated dial
Last update: September 7, 2016
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Today sundial's have been replaced by wrist watches and alarm clocks. [Please select]
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King Roger's sundial in the palace is commemorated in all three, and it is to be noticed that the three inscriptions do not translate one another. [Please select]
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One gloomy day, the clock on a church steeple, looking down on a sundial, said, THIRD READER. [Please select]
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"Rachael, dear," Florence said sweetly, when the greetings were over, "will you take the bishop down to look at the sundial." [Please select]
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** How to Lay Out a Sundial [261] The sundial is an instrument for measuring time by using the shadow of the sun. [Please select]
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The design of the sundial is left to the ingenuity of the maker. [Please select]
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Sun time to local mean time,- add those marked + subtract those Marked - from Sundial lime. [Please select]
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Hence, wherever a sundial is to be constructed, we must take the equinoctial shadow of the place. [Please select]
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It's a fine big house, and splendid gardens, and a lawn with a sundial, and the tallest trees anywhere about here. [Please select]
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He was just reading the part about the sundial, which he had noticed from the train when we went to Bexley Heath. [Please select]
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You see that sparrow on the sundial, swearing at the blackbird down below. [Please select]
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