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The Harold C. Ernst Collection of Portable Sundials [PDF]
, 2014 A catalog of sundials from the Harold C. Ernst Collection of Portable Sundials, and a handy reference book on the subject of portable sundials. The sundial is the most ancient scientific instrument to come down to us unchanged.
Mayall, Margaret W., Mayall, R. Newton
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Evolution of time measuring instruments since ancient times until the Ottoman clock towers [PDF]
Journal of General Union of Arab Archaeologists, 2019 This study is concerned with the tools and methods of calculating time. As we went back to the earliest times, we found that time was not important in primitive man, and then the modern age began, in which man settled relatively.
Dr. Seham Abdallah Gad
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Interpretatie van Zonnewijzerfragmenten
Bulletin KNOB, 1991 This paper reaches after a framework to determination of patterns of hourlines on sundials on the basis of a complete, but broken sundial and a small fragment of another one, called Enthinge nr. 25 and nr.
Eugène L.H. Roebroeck
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A Mathematical Analysis of the Theory of Horizontal Sundials in the Ottoman Period: The Case of Risālah of Ruhāma [PDF]
Nazariyat: Journal for the History of Islamic Philosophy and Sciences, 2015 As the prayer times are determined according the sun’s position, the theory of sundials, how to draw and design them, hold a significant place in the history of Islamic astronomy.
Atilla Bir, Şinasi Acar, Mustafa Kaçar
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Inverted analemmatic sundial of the Bronze Age [PDF]
Archaeoastronomy and Ancient Technologies, 2022 This article describes the study, using the methods of digital and computational archeology, of a Bronze Age limestone slab with cup marks, discovered during the archaeological excavations of kurgan 1 of the kurgan grave field Prolom II, located in the ...
L.N. Vodolazhskaya
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Temporalités, 2005 Sundials are still often considered today, wrongly, as simply an artistic outdoor decoration. In fact, they are complex astronomical instruments, not only as conceived but also in actual reality.
Olivier Escuder
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Reconstruction of ancient Egyptian sundials [PDF]
Archaeoastronomy and Ancient Technologies, 2014 The article presents the results of a study of the design features of vertical and L-shaped ancient Egyptian sundials, developed their models, on the basis of which the reconstruction of the sundial was carried out.
Vodolazhskaya, L.N.
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The prototype of ancient analemmatic sundials (Rostov Oblast, Russia) [PDF]
Archaeoastronomy and Ancient Technologies, 2016 The article presents the results of a study of petroglyphs on a unique stone slab discovered near the kurgan 1 of the kurgan field Varvarinsky I (Rostov Oblast, Russia).
Vodolazhskaya, L.N. +2 more
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Sundials/ML: interfacing with numerical solvers [PDF]
, 2016 International audienceWe describe a comprehensive OCaml interface to the Sundials suite of numerical solvers (version 2.6.2).
Bourke, Timothy +2 more
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Les inscriptions du temps sur les cadrans solaires
Temporalités, 2004 Temporal sociology has not taken much interest in the epigraphy of sundials. We are attempting to redress this lack by showing that mottoes constitute precious archives for research into temporalities.
Jean-Marc Ramos, Max Reinert
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