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Come along and grow old with me; the best is yet to be. [1] Hours fly, Flowers die. New days, New ways, Pass by. Love stays. [2] Hours fly, Flowers bloom and die. Old days, Old ways pass. Love stays. I only tell of sunny hours. I count only sunny hours. The clouds shall pass and the sun will shine on us once more.
Near the equinoxes in spring and autumn, the sun moves on a circle that is nearly the same as the equatorial plane; hence, no clear shadow is produced on the equatorial dial at those times of year, a drawback of the design. A nodus is sometimes added to equatorial sundials, which allows the sundial to tell the time of year.
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.
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 ...
Wegner had a grand oval driveway built in front of the main building with a sundial in the middle of the lawn. [1] The sundial is constructed as an open globe, where the meridians cast a shadow on sunny days onto the inner part of the globe, hitting the inside of the equator line and thus showing the time, specifically the astronomical solar time.
[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 ...
A sundial known as the Millennium Monument was built above Point Udall for the New Year's celebration in 2000 — it marks the azimuth of the first U.S. sunrise of that year. From the monument an informal trail of moderate difficulty leads down to the point, which is composed primarily of uplifted and rotated volcanic and sedimentary rocks of ...
Kirkdale sundial. The ancient canonical sundial at St Gregory's Minster, Kirkdale in North Yorkshire, England, near Kirkbymoorside, dates to the mid 11th century.. The panel containing the actual sundial above the church doors is flanked by two panels, bearing a rare inscription in Old English, the language of the Anglo-Saxons.