previous next

Sun-di′al.

A time-measurer, in which a gnomon casts a shadow upon a graduated plate.

Said by Pliny to have been invented by Anaximander of Miletus, 550 or 562 B. C. The dial of Ahaz, referred to by Hezekiah, was near two centuries precedent to that of the Grecian. It probably originated with the Chaldees or with the race of Asiatic descent known to us as Egyptians, who were the dwellers in the valley of the Nile at the period of Abraham, and long previous. See dial.

Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.

An XML version of this text is available for download, with the additional restriction that you offer Perseus any modifications you make. Perseus provides credit for all accepted changes, storing new additions in a versioning system.

hide Places (automatically extracted)

View a map of the most frequently mentioned places in this document.

Download Pleiades ancient places geospacial dataset for this text.

hide People (automatically extracted)
Sort people alphabetically, as they appear on the page, by frequency
Click on a person to search for him/her in this document.
Miletus (1)
Anaximander (1)
hide Dates (automatically extracted)
Sort dates alphabetically, as they appear on the page, by frequency
Click on a date to search for it in this document.
562 BC (1)
hide Display Preferences
Greek Display:
Arabic Display:
View by Default:
Browse Bar: