Examples of using Sundials in English and their translations into Hebrew
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I have got some stuff on sundials.
But sundials have their limitations too.
The answer is very simple: sundials.
More precise sundials are built in Egypt.
And it just happens to be the same math used with sundials.
Sundials had been used for timekeeping since Ancient Egypt.
Before the invention of the pendulum clock, sundials were the only accurate timepieces.
Sundials indicate the time by casting a shadow onto a surface.
Water clocks, along with the sundials, are the oldest instruments for measuring time.
Sundials along with hourglass and water clocks are possibly the oldest time measuring instruments.
Water clocks, along with the sundials, are possibly the oldest time-measuring instruments….
When good clocks became available,they appeared inaccurate to people who were used to trusting sundials.
Water clocks, along with sundials, are likely to be the oldest time-measuring instruments.
This octagonal clocktower showed scholars and shoppers both sundials and mechanical hour indicators.
Sundials and hourglasses record the capacity of time until the 14th century when the first mechanical clocks were erected on churches and monasteries.
In about 14 B.C.,Roman engineer Marcus Vitruvius Pollio used the projection to construct sundials and to compute sun positions.
Following the acceptance of heliocentrism and equal hours,as well as advances in trigonometry, sundials appeared in their present form during the Renaissance, when they were built in large numbers.
In today world, the concept of time which varies according to the seasons seems far-fetched,but in the world of al-Jazari who knew sundials and water clocks, it made perfect sense.
The Han dynasty philosopher and politician Huan Tan(40 BC- AD 30), a Secretary at the Court in charge of clepsydrae,wrote that he had to compare clepsydrae with sundials because of how temperature and humidity affected their accuracy, demonstrating that the effects of evaporation, as well as of temperature on the speed at which water flows, were known at this time.
You wanna buy a sundial?
We could make a sundial with a stick in the ground.
A 20th-century sundial in Seville, Andalusia, Spain.
Others wrote of the sundial in the mathematics and literature of the period.
I built a sundial, and we have a new goat.
The last thing was very old sundial.
It's like a sundial.
The sundial was further developed by Muslim astronomers.
No.6302 The sundial of the old palace.