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Definition of Gnomons
1. gnomon [n] - See also: gnomon
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gnomons
Literary usage of Gnomons
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Sun Dials and Roses of Yesterday: Garden Delights which are Here Displayed by Alice Morse Earle (1902)
"... IX PEDESTALS AND gnomons " A well-built marble pyramid doth stand By which
spectators know the time o' the day From beams reflecting of the solar ray ..."
2. Sun Dials and Roses of Yesterday: Garden Delights which are Here Displayed by Alice Morse Earle (1902)
"... IX PEDESTALS AND gnomons " A well-built marble pyramid doth stand By which
spectators know the time o' the day From beams reflecting of the solar ray ..."
3. The British Essayists by James Ferguson (1823)
"This superb column, no less remarkable than the famous pillar of Trajan, seems (from
the several gnomons and other hieroglyphics stuck about it) to have ..."
4. The London Encyclopaedia, Or, Universal Dictionary of Science, Art by Thomas Tegg (1829)
"gnomons, a universal dial with several, HIRE, M. De La, his method of dialling, 6.
HORIZONTAL DIALS, 11. Construction of one, 28. 44. Double, 100. ..."
5. Theoretic Arithmetic, in Three Books: Containing the Substance of All that by Thomas Taylor (1816)
"1357 9 11 13 15 / 2 4 6 8 10 18 14 16 If three gnomons of squares are assumed,
1, 3, 5, the sum of them is 9, and the sum of the gnomons 2 and 4, ..."
6. The Origin of Laws, Arts, and Sciences, and Their Progress Among the Most by Antoine-Yves Goguet, Alexandre-Conrad Fugère (1775)
"... they had ufed originally the gnomons which nature had ... But natural gnomons
could not ... led them to invent artificial gnomons. ..."
7. An English Syntithology: In Three Books, Developing the Constructive by James Brown (1847)
"(nom- LESSON I. GNOM-O-NOLOGY is the principles on which those gnomons, ...
To gnom-o-nize a sentence, then, is to apply to it, such gnomons as will ..."
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