analemma
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Origin of analemma
1645–55; < Latin: pedestal of a sundial, sundial < Greek análēmma support
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Ptolemy's Almagest treats of the construction of dials by means of his analemma, an instrument which solved a variety of astronomical problems.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 3 "Destructors" to "Diameter" by Various
Under a rising sun, when about one-fourth of the floor is in shadow, three of these can be easily distinguished, each resembling in form the analemma figure.
From The Moon A Full Description and Map of its Principal Physical Features by Elger, Thomas Gwyn
The analemma is a basis for calculation deduced from the course of the sun, and found by observation of the shadow as it increases until the winter solstice.
From The Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio
HORREBOW.—A ring-plain of remarkable shape, resembling the analemma figure, standing at the S. end of the mountain range bounding J.F.W.
From The Moon A Full Description and Map of its Principal Physical Features by Elger, Thomas Gwyn
Thus we shall have the figure of the analemma.
From The Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio
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