This article is devoted to the description of an outstanding sundial, discovered in Carthage. It is a very well preserved particular type of" scaphea ", today exposed at the Louvre museum. This sundial is a half-sphere made of beige marble. It must be used inclined so that the solar rays passing through its zenithal hole hit the lower edge of the sundial at noon of the winter solstice. The hour is indicated by the solar image projected on the shaded interior surface of the sundial. It includes seven declination curves, with abbreviations in greek of roman calendar months, together with eleven hour curves without figures. We describe completely the use and the way of calculating such a sundial. Moreover, we demonstrate that this scaphea was ...
To beat the rhythm of their existence by measuring the time has always been a fundamental requireme...
The purpose of this work is to study fourteen ancient sundials from in-situ measurements and discuss...
There is a long history of sundials in Oxford with many splendid examples, old and new, in college g...
This article is devoted to the description of an outstanding sundial, discovered in Carthage. It is ...
A cylindrical artefact - about two inches in height, made of bone and damaged - was discovered durin...
Two roman sundials which belong to the "scaphe" type, were discovered a few decades back in Hérault....
Sundial is a special solar device which signals exclusively, every day of the year, when the Sun cro...
On the place called “ Doumet”, municipality of Châteauvert, a sundial was accidentally discovered in...
Sundials are still often considered today, wrongly, as simply an artistic outdoor decoration. In fac...
Today restoring ancient ‘‘camera obscura sundials’’ by drilling holes in building fac¸ades appears ...
International audienceThe object presented in this contribution adds to the relatively small corpus ...
This article studies the epigraphic material in Epirus and Southern Illyria and the names of the mon...
International audienceAt the bottom of the Cime des Merveilles, the early Bronze Age engravers desig...
The Gnomonics, or art of calculation, design and construction of sundials existed since ancient time...
We report two techniques, whose origins can be found in Egypt and Chaldea, used in Rome for the cons...
To beat the rhythm of their existence by measuring the time has always been a fundamental requireme...
The purpose of this work is to study fourteen ancient sundials from in-situ measurements and discuss...
There is a long history of sundials in Oxford with many splendid examples, old and new, in college g...
This article is devoted to the description of an outstanding sundial, discovered in Carthage. It is ...
A cylindrical artefact - about two inches in height, made of bone and damaged - was discovered durin...
Two roman sundials which belong to the "scaphe" type, were discovered a few decades back in Hérault....
Sundial is a special solar device which signals exclusively, every day of the year, when the Sun cro...
On the place called “ Doumet”, municipality of Châteauvert, a sundial was accidentally discovered in...
Sundials are still often considered today, wrongly, as simply an artistic outdoor decoration. In fac...
Today restoring ancient ‘‘camera obscura sundials’’ by drilling holes in building fac¸ades appears ...
International audienceThe object presented in this contribution adds to the relatively small corpus ...
This article studies the epigraphic material in Epirus and Southern Illyria and the names of the mon...
International audienceAt the bottom of the Cime des Merveilles, the early Bronze Age engravers desig...
The Gnomonics, or art of calculation, design and construction of sundials existed since ancient time...
We report two techniques, whose origins can be found in Egypt and Chaldea, used in Rome for the cons...
To beat the rhythm of their existence by measuring the time has always been a fundamental requireme...
The purpose of this work is to study fourteen ancient sundials from in-situ measurements and discuss...
There is a long history of sundials in Oxford with many splendid examples, old and new, in college g...