gnomonist
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Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
gnomonist (plural gnomonists)
- One skilled in gnomonics; a person who makes sundials.
- 1688, Robert Doyle, A Disquisition about the Final Causes of Natural Things:
- enable the Gnomonist to make Accurate Dials
- 2012, René R.J. Rohr, Sundials: History, Theory, and Practice:
- There exist other procedures, current among astronomers and mariners, which require instruments not usually available to the gnomonists;
Translations[edit]
person skilled in gnomonics
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References[edit]
- “gnomonist”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.