Definitionn. indicator provided by the stationary arm whose shadow indicates the time on the sundial
Last update: July 28, 2015
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Scientific geography profited largely from the labours of Eratosthenes of Cyrene, whom Ptolemy Euergetes appointed The gnomon was known to the Chinese in the 5th century B.C., and reached the Greeks (Anaximander) through Babylon. [Please select]
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This will be the equinoctial shadow of the gnomon. [Please select]
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Alexandria, 36, 196, 197, 218; length of shadow of gnomon at, 270. [Please select]
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Gnomon, 257; length of shadow at different places, 270. [Please select]
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_, 167, 219, 220; length of shadow of gnomon at, 270; siege of, 316 _f. [Please select]
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Tarentum, 12, 255; length of shadow of gnomon at, 270. [Please select]
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No doubt, however, it was a sun-dial, or gnomon of some kind. [Please select]
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