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Martial's Pereunt et Imputantur on St Buryan's parish church, Cornwall Horace's Umbra Sumus on Brick Lane Mosque, London. Ex iis unam cave. (Beware of one [hour] out of these.) [11] Lente hora, celeriter anni. (An hour [passes] slowly, but the years [pass] quickly.) [11] Meam vide umbram, tuam videbis vitam. (Look at my shadow and you will see ...
A sundial is a horological device that tells the time of day (referred to as civil time in modern usage) when direct sunlight shines by the apparent position of the Sun in the sky. In the narrowest sense of the word, it consists of a flat plate (the dial) and a gnomon, which casts a shadow onto the dial.
1578 A dial (maker unknown) for Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1586). Decoration included a ropework border, and scrolls at the end of the chapter ring. 1580s Simple punched dials- for use by the less wealthy, though the gnomon started to have a complex shape. 1590 Isaack Symmes, a 'gouldsmith'(sic) was producing dials.
tu ne cede malis, sed contra audentior ito: you should not give in to evils, but proceed ever more boldly against them: From Virgil, Aeneid, 6, 95. "Ne cede malis" is the motto of The Bronx. tu quoque: you too: The logical fallacy of attempting to defend one's position merely by pointing out the same weakness in one's opponent. tu stultus es ...
Before the invention of the clock the sundial was the only way to measure time. After the invention of the clock, the sundial maintained its importance, as clocks needed to be reset regularly from a sundial, because the accuracy of early clocks was poor. A clock and a sundial were used together to measure longitude. Dials were laid out using ...
An example of the phrase as a sundial motto in Redu, Belgium.. Tempus fugit is typically employed as an admonition against sloth and procrastination (cf. carpe diem) rather than an argument for licentiousness (cf. "gather ye rosebuds while ye may"); the English form is often merely descriptive: "time flies like the wind", "time flies when you're having fun".
Currently a number of the articles we have covering the history of nuclear weapons are inadequately sourced, or use books as sources, which I do not have immediate access to for verification. Especially given the role Edward Teller played in advocating for the development of Gnomon and Sundial, a few important points would be:
[2] [3] The sundial was formerly located slightly further south at the steps of the main entry plaza to the Planetarium, [4] [5] but it now sits directly on the lakefront. The work is a later copy of a composition first created in the 1960s for the offices of The Times newspaper at Printing House Square in London, and according to the Henry ...