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TwitterThe early sundial was just a just stick that cast a shadow. The Babylonians and Egyptians built obelisks simply using the sun shade, that means time of day was counted more than 4000 years ago. The Chinese also believed to be perfected some sort if sundial to measure time in the ancient world.
However, from the archeological inventions; it seems that the Egyptians invented sundial first time in human history around 1500 BC. It was a simple horizontal bar with a raised "T" on one end. Along the east side it shows the hours in the morning and west side in the afternoon, while the length of the shadow along the horizontal bands, labels of the five lines in a unit time measure that says an hour.
Understanding sundial in astronomy and geometry were used later to measure hour and minute in a calculative way which in turn contributed to the invention of a new section in Mathematics called Trigonometry.
Sundials have been used throughout the ancient world, but it was later the Greeks and the Arabs, and Romans, which led to its phenomenal changes. Revolutionary European Renaissance contributes to the golden age for sundial. The sundial was just a little time and astronomical instruments for the period 1500-1800 and various types of sundials were developed during this time. Probably the most extensive was the armillary sundial, set arches open arrows and rings.
Even after the invention of mechanical clocks, sundials were well known for its accuracy of minutes and set up in different churches in the nineteenth century. Complex Renaissance sundial was installed in important public places to see the seasons, date and time of sunrise and sunset. Many sunny hours in this period are still visible; not only in museums, but to "work" continue to garden and buildings, including churches and cathedrals.
Many of these classic designs of the sundial is now sold by local stores and online shops, is generally regarded as beautiful garden decorating clock, quite seriously. Surprisingly, now a day’s sundials become a popular garden decoration instrument. It is now unavoidable to ignore the sundial as constant elements to present a visual appeal to your garden.
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