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Conical sundials from the hellenistic and Roman period at museums of Athens: Novel time measurements concerning operation and accuracy

open access: yes, 2020
The purpose of this work is to study fourteen ancient sundials from in-situ measurements and discuss the significance and importance of time measurements in antiquity.
Panou, E.   +2 more
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Online Ephemerides – the Equation of Time and True Solar Time, Sunrise and Sunset and the Corresponding Azimuths

open access: yesKartografija i Geoinformacije, 2015
The paper describes the Croatian web page Online ephemerides with its applications for calculating and visualising the equation of time and the analemma, converting zone time (zone or civil time) into true solar time (the time shown by sundials) and ...
Goran Tomac, Drago Špoljarić
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Height-dependent Phase Shifts of Wave Pulses in the Lower Solar Atmosphere Measured with Sunrise iii

open access: yesThe Astrophysical Journal Letters
We report on the measurement of the height-dependent time shifts of wave pulses in the lower solar atmosphere from high-resolution spectropolarimetric observations obtained with the SUSI instrument on board the S unrise iii balloon-borne solar ...
Andreas Lagg   +34 more
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THE MATERIAL CULTURE OF ASTRONOMY IN DAILY LIFE: SUNDIALS, SCIENCE, AND SOCIAL CHANGE

open access: yes, 2020
Sundials are among the most ancient of astronomical instruments. The earliest surviving examples date from 1500 B.C. By tracing the length and angles of shadows and by employing mathematical projections of the celestial sphere, early dials marked the ...
Sara Schechner
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Greco-Roman zodiac sundials and their links to a calendar from Qumran [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
This paper proposes that the Greco-Roman zodiac sundials that flourished in Greece and Italy from about the second century BCE to the second century CE were related to a probable zodiac calendar found in astronomical Aramaic manuscript fragments in the ...
Jacobus, HR
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Astronomy of Shadows and Light : Athanasius Kircher 's Sundials between Geometry, Perspective and Science

open access: yes, 2018
In the XVII century the scientific debate revolved around the celestial wonders considered as mere application of terrestrial geometries. At the time Rome, one of the most important European theater of experimental science, had a large group of ...
Monteleone, Cosimo   +3 more
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Cosmic Gardens: The role o f sundials in gardens structures

open access: yes, 2007
A napórák olyan kerti és szabadtéri objektumok, amelyek erejüket közvetlenül a napfényből nyerik, így belső terekben alkalmazva lényegüket vesztik. Egyszerű szerkezetükben a napjárást fordítják le az emberi időszámítás nyelvére. Míg kezdetben időhatározó
Eplényi, Anna, Demjén, István
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Astronomer Jan Baranowski’s sundials – in Zamość, Lublin and Kozłówka [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Na obszarze województwa lubelskiego znajdują się trzy horyzontalne zegary słoneczne o podobnej formie i zbliżonych datach wykonania: z 1868 r. – obok katedry w Zamościu, oraz dwa z 1876 r.
Gałecka, Marzena   +1 more
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libRoadRunner 2.0: a high performance SBML simulation and analysis library. [PDF]

open access: yesBioinformatics, 2023
Welsh C   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Sundials at teaching mathematics and physics in primary and secondary schools [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
V magistrskem delu je obravnavana problematika sončnih ur iz matematičnega in fizikalnega vidika. Podan je pregled različnih tipov sončnih ur s poudarkom na ekvatorialnih sončnih urah.
Šabeder, Aljaž
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