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Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 152 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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GNOMON , the See also:

Greek word for the See also:style of a sundial, or any See also:object, commonly a See also:vertical See also:column, the See also:shadow of which was 'A . observed in former times in See also:order to learn 8 the See also:altitude of the See also:sun, especially when on the See also:meridian. The See also:art of constructing a sundial is sometimes termed gnomonics. In See also:geometry, a gnomon is a See also:plane figure C formed by removing a parallelogram from a corner of a larger parallelogram; in the figure ABCDEFA is a gnomon. Gnomonic See also:projection is a projection of a See also:sphere in which the centre of sight is the centre of the sphere.

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