7、The natural objects belief of Confucius mansion mainly involved sacrificing the Big Dipper and sundial.
11、Why it's Innovative: as its name implies, the bridge's 217-foot-tall support tower ACTS as a giant sundial.
15、On the small square paved with stone strips, there is also a modern sundial, Pavilion and other farm buildings on the western base.
19、The main parts of a sundial are an erect stylus and a calibrated disk. As the sun moves in the sky, the shadow of the stylus moves like a clock hand around the disk indicating the hours.
3、By the sundial the solar term can be known too.
8、A device, such as a clock or sundial, used in telling time.
13、Unearthed relics show that the sundial was used before the Han Dynasty (206 BC - AD 220). It had been popular until mechanical clocks were introduced to China.
18、There he showed a great deal of interest in doing things with his hands: he made a model of a windmill, he made water clocks, and he made a stone sundial.
4、The Samrat Yantra: a89 foot high and148 foot wide sundial.
10、It was agnomon, Silas had been told, a pagan astronomical device like a sundial.
17、On the principle that water drips evenly, people can measure time by watching the number of grades on the arrow. As a time-measuring apparatus, the clepsydra is used more widely than the sundial.
5、An equatorial sundial is an ancient scientific equipment to tell time by using the shadow from solar projection. It consists of a sundial plate, a gnomon and a base.
14、The invention and use of the gnomon-and-ruler, sundial, clepsydra and other time-measuring machines is evidence of Chinese wisdom.
2、Like a giant sundial, it demarcates both space and time.
16、The sundial works well only when the sun is shining. So, other ways were invented to measure the passing of time.
9、The sundial is the oldest known device for the measurement of time.
6、As a time-measuring apparatus, the clepsydra is used more widely than the sundial.
12、Humans have used many devices to measure time. The sundial was one of the earliest and simplest.
1、A sundial showed very precise time.
20、Green lighthouse building shape is cylindrical, so some people give it nicknamed "sundial", its facade shutter can be adjusted, the light as the sun moves around the building rotates into the.
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