It had always sounded strangely in my ears, like the word gnomon in the Euclid and the word simony in the. From Wordnik.com. [Dubliners] Reference
The gnomons of horizontal dials are often finely designed, but to meet with such work in a vertical gnomon is rare. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of Sun-Dials] Reference
It had always sounded strangely in my ears, like the word gnomon in the Euclid and the word simony in the Catechism. From Wordnik.com. [Dubliners] Reference
This particular one is called a gnomon magic square, because clusters of any four contiguous numbers add up to the same sum. From Wordnik.com. [The Art Thief] Reference
The gnomon is the part of a sundial that casts the shadow. From Wordnik.com. [Gnomon, The Gardening Welder Guy-An update « Fairegarden] Reference
"And a gnomon is the piece on a sundial that throws the shadow," says Clete promptly. From Wordnik.com. [Asimov's Science Fiction]
On this device, the hour markers are on the cylinder and the gnomon is the horizontal brass arm. From Wordnik.com. [Artifacts from the Age of Astronomy] Reference
The obscure name I revere the most is gnomon, which is the upright part of a sundial that casts the shadow. From Wordnik.com. [Dear Clusterflock | clusterflock] Reference
This will be the equinoctial shadow of the gnomon. From Wordnik.com. [The Ten Books on Architecture] Reference
He looked like the gnomon on a sundial, she thought. From Wordnik.com. [Mary Queen Of Scotland And The Isles]
Next make a shadow-piece, or gnomon, as it is called. From Wordnik.com. [The Library of Work and Play: Gardening and Farming.] Reference
This is evident in the Pythagorean use of the gnomon. From Wordnik.com. [TIME AND MEASUREMENT] Reference
Tarentum, 12, 255; length of shadow of gnomon at, 270. From Wordnik.com. [The Ten Books on Architecture] Reference
Then the gnomon moved, and came toward the palace doors. From Wordnik.com. [Mary Queen Of Scotland And The Isles]
Euclid discusses the gnomon at great lengths in his Elements. From Wordnik.com. [Dear Clusterflock | clusterflock] Reference
Ere noon was marked by the gnomon of the dial set up before the judges. From Wordnik.com. [King Arthur's Knights The Tales Re-told for Boys & Girls] Reference
Like the gnomon upon the sun-dial, he takes no account of any hours, but the serene. From Wordnik.com. [An Essay on Professional Ethics Second Edition] Reference
It would also be a pleasant task to investigate the properties of the gnomon of the Chinese. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 484, April 11, 1885] Reference
He told me I am to oversee the making of the gnomon and dial plane for its shadow to fall upon. From Wordnik.com. [Men Don't Leave Me] Reference
Dials, the style or gnomon being a lion's paw, unicorn's horn, or some emblem from the royal arms. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 400, November 21, 1829] Reference
Let A be the centre of a plane surface, and B the point to which the shadow of the gnomon reaches in the morning. From Wordnik.com. [The Ten Books on Architecture] Reference
Some of the astronomical instruments which they constructed, including the sextant and the gnomon, are still in use. From Wordnik.com. [Early European History] Reference
It is meant to serve as the gnomon of a gigantic dial, traced in lines of white marble in the pavement of the square. From Wordnik.com. [Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood] Reference
“Detaching mind from over-eager gnomon and its exquisitely appointed, shadowy task, he began to make love to her.”. From Wordnik.com. [Dear Clusterflock | clusterflock] Reference
Alexandria cast a shadow corresponding to an angle between the gnomon and the sun's rays of 1/50th of four right angles. From Wordnik.com. [The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield] Reference
Your only cares will be to scent yourself, and to go and dine, when the shadow of the gnomon is ten feet long on the dial. From Wordnik.com. [The Eleven Comedies, Volume 2] Reference
One of these tools was the gnomon, which was essentially a stick in the ground, and you measured the shadows of the sun and moon. From Wordnik.com. [The Art of Chinese Astronomical Technology] Reference
He observed that at the summer solstice at Syene, at noon, the sun cast no shadow, while at the same moment the upright gnomon at. From Wordnik.com. [The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield] Reference
They invented the zodiac and gnomon, made use of several kinds of dials, notified eclipses, and divided the day into twenty-four hours. From Wordnik.com. [The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost'] Reference
The other dial had some half-worn hour-marks, but no gnomon. From Wordnik.com. [Passages from the English Notebooks, Volume 1.] Reference
No doubt, however, it was a sun-dial, or gnomon of some kind. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Eclipses] Reference
A gnomon had been set up in a low room and one of the missionaries, M. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Eclipses] Reference
Anaximander, born 610 B.C., invented the gnomon, and constructed geographical charts. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Roman World, : the Grandeur and Failure of Its Civilization.] Reference
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