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The gnomon is the triangular blade in this sundial.
A gnomon (/ˈnoʊˌmɒn,-mən/; from Ancient Greek γνώμων (gnṓmōn) 'one that knows or examines')[1][2] is the part of a sundial that casts a shadow. The term is used for a variety of purposes in mathematics and other fields.
^γνώμων. Liddell, Henry George; Scott, Robert; A Greek–English Lexicon at the Perseus Project.
A gnomon (/ˈnoʊˌmɒn, -mən/; from Ancient Greek γνώμων (gnṓmōn) 'one that knows or examines') is the part of a sundial that casts a shadow. The term is...
of the gnomon, though a single point or nodus may be used. The gnomon casts a broad shadow; the shadow of the style shows the time. The gnomon may be...
Gnomon Island is a small rocky island lying just north of Point Wild, on Elephant Island in the South Shetland Islands. It was charted by Ernest Shackleton's...
The theorem of the gnomon states that certain parallelograms occurring in a gnomon have areas of equal size. In a parallelogram ABCD{\displaystyle ABCD}...
translated as 'On the gnomon and the circular paths of Heaven', the 'Zhou shadow gauge manual', the 'Gnomon of the Zhou sundial', and 'Gnomon of the Zhou dynasty'...
related to Johann Albrecht Bengel. Gnomon Novi Testamenti Vol. 1. (English translation, covering Matthew and Mark.) Gnomon Novi Testamenti Vol. 2. (English...
Atlantis. The beggar initiates Jimmerson into the Gnomon Society, and tells him of their current Master of Gnomons – Pletho Pappus. In 1919, Jimmerson travels...
Gnomon is a for-profit college in Hollywood, California. The school focuses on artistic and technical training for careers in the visual effects and games...
trapezoidal number. The gnomon is the piece added to a figurate number to transform it to the next larger one. For example, the gnomon of the square number...
shadow. It does so by simulating the ratio between an object, generally a gnomon, and its shadow. If the Sun's ray is between 0 degrees and 45 degrees the...
horizontal sundial that has a vertical gnomon and hour markers positioned in an elliptical pattern. The gnomon is not fixed and must change position daily...
(which was nominated for the 2013 Arthur C. Clarke award), Tigerman, and Gnomon; and a non-fiction study of the digital world, The Blind Giant: Being Human...
Devendra Obi Banhart (born May 30, 1981) is an American-Venezuelan singer-songwriter and visual artist. Banhart was born in Texas, and raised in Venezuela...
instructor for an advanced animation class at the Gnomon School of Visual Effects. He worked at Gnomon on a short film Plus Minus, co-directed by Aristomenis...
quoted by his successors. Anaximander is credited with the invention of the gnomon, the simple, yet efficient Greek instrument that allowed the early measurement...
If the apex angle of the golden gnomon is trisected, the trisector again subdivides it into a smaller golden gnomon and a golden triangle. The trisector...
vertical sundial, the other a horizontal sundial. The shadow caster, or gnomon, was a string between them, and calibrated as to how far they should open...
first been erected under the pharaoh Psamtik II used in some fashion as a gnomon. Once believed to have been a massive sundial, it is now more commonly understood...
projections could have played a role in Neolithic structures. Perforated gnomons projecting a pinhole image of the sun were described in the Chinese Zhoubi...
Meier 1995, pp. 474, 476. Badian, Ernst (1990). "Review of "Caesar"". Gnomon. 62 (1): 35. ISSN 0017-1417. JSTOR 27690364. At this point, some time in...
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