Best sundials for ancient and elegant garden décor
The horological device consists of a flat plate and a gnomon, and it is the position or length of the gnomon’s shadow which ...
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How Delhi's Jantar Mantar read the cosmos
The gnomon is a right-angled triangle. The slanting side is at an angle of 28.4° to the ground, meant to match what was thought to be Delhi’s latitude in those days (it is taken as 28.7° today).
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PROC GPROJECT Statement
When PROJECT=ALBERS, LAMBERT, or GNOMON, PROC GPROJECT treats the value of max-latitude as degrees. When PROJECT=NONE, the procedure treats the value as a Cartesian coordinate. specify the minimum ...