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Mather Sundial in the McCosh Courtyard
, 2015 The Mather Sundial in McCosh Courtyard is a replica of the Turnbull Sundial (1551) at Corpus Christi College, Oxford. Princeton's sundial was given by Sir William Mather, governor of Victoria University in Manchester, England, "to symbolize the ...
Beards, Daniel E.
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La maîtrise du temps d’irrigation au sein des oasis alimentées par des aflâj
Revue d'ethnoécologie, 2013 The irrigation technique prevailing in Oman oases, the falaj, delivers water year round. The users of a falaj have to divide its water on a temporal basis. Each of them is allocated a certain number of 30-minute water shares.
Julien Charbonnier
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‘Transmigrasi Ilmu’: Dari Dunia Islam ke Eropa
Tsaqafah, 2010 It has been a sad fact that whilst the ancient Greco-Roman civilization and the so-called Renaissance have always received high praise, the period in between, popularly known as the Dark Ages, is highly obscured or just ignored.
Syamsuddin Arif
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GNOMONIC TERMS IN THE SERBIAN LANGUAGE
Zbornik Radova: Geografski institut "Jovan Cvijić", 2018 In Serbia, as in many other European countries, there has been a widespread revival of interest in gnomonics in recent decades. An increasing number of sundials and a growing number of publications on gnomonics demonstrate the popularity of sundialling ...
Zorica Prnjat, Milutin Tadić
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A Preliminary Study on the Yang-cheon-cheok (量天尺) in the Late Joseon Dynasty [PDF]
Journal of Astronomy and Space Sciences, 2015 We investigated the six remaining Yang-cheon-cheoks (量天尺), which were first described in the Veritable Record of King Sukjong (肅宗實錄). These woodblock sundials from Korea are structurally very similar to a Gyupyo (圭表, gnomon) or an altitude sundial and ...
Sang Hyuk Kim +2 more
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Analysis on the Hour-lines of Yangcheon-cheok [PDF]
Journal of Astronomy and Space Sciences, 2017 We studied the hour-lines of six extant Yangcheon-cheoks in Korea. To find whether Yangcheon-cheok was used in the whole area of Korea, we calculated the length of shadows of Yangcheon-cheok on the Korean Peninsula, Nanjing and Beijing as well as ...
Sang Hyuk Kim +2 more
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Dialogues d'Histoire Ancienne, 2008 Remus Mihai Feraru, New contributions to the study of the sundials discovered in the Greek cities of Dobruja, DHA 34/2, 2008, 65-80. Abstract : Among the artefacts found in the Greek cities of the West coast of the Euxine Sea are a fragment of a ...
Renius Mihai Feraru
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International Journal of Mechanical System Dynamics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Accurate modeling of vibrating machines equipped with Neidhart springs is challenging due to the strong nonlinearities introduced by the elastomer–metal torsional elements and the constraints imposed by their kinematic arrangement. Multibody modeling methodologies for such vibrating machines are often computationally demanding, thus limiting ...
Davide Galli +3 more
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Complexitatea și ingeniozitatea citirii timpului la 1600
Arheologia MoldoveiThe diptych ivory sundial found in Iași – Centrul de Afaceri, in 1996, has been the central piece in the exhibition ”Underground Iași – Rediscovered (Hi)stories”, organized at the Palace of Culture in Iași by Moldavia’s History Museum within ”Moldova ...
Coralia Costaș
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