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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 ...
The sundial is named after the gold-painted Pelican on an armillary sphere at the top of the pillar. [40] " Pelican Sundial" is a misnomer, as the pillar contains 27 separate sundials. [ 41 ] Nine of the sundials are found easily: four on each face of the square frustum beneath the pelican, four beneath each coat of arms on the cuboid and one ...
A common sundial motto. See also tempus volat, hora fugit below. tempus rerum imperator: time, commander of all things "Tempus Rerum Imperator" has been adopted by the Google Web Accelerator project. It is shown in the "About Google Web Accelerator" page. Also, motto of Worshipful Company of Clockmakers. tempus vernum: spring time
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.
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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.
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