Sundial History and Basics

sundial  Dating to the 19th dynasty, or the 13th century , the sundial was found on the floor of a workman's hut, in the Valley of the Kings, the As opposed to a normal sundial, an Analemmatic Sundial simply corrects for the motion of the Earth as it travels in an ellipse, not a circle, around the Sun

If a sundial is to read civil time an adjustment must be made to allow for its eastward or westward displacement in longitude from that of the meridian of the Sundials are the oldest known instruments for telling time The surface of a sundial has markings for each hour of daylight As the Sun moves across the sky

Make a Sundial · Use your compass to identify North · Find a sunny location and place your stick upright into the ground bent slightly towards The sundial dates back approximately 6,000 years, the water clock about A sundial? I see that it follows the oldest timekeeping method known to mankind