| Multiple sundials were situated in strategic locations along the terraces, capturing the sun's light as it made its daily path across the sky. |
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| Originally a mechanical engineer, he developed his interest in sundials nine years ago and has made more than 2 000 dials. |
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| In addition to gravestones, Hummelstown stone was fashioned into pedestals for urns, sundials, clocks, and door stops. |
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| He was also interested in hydrodynamics and hydraulics and he moved on from making sundials to invent other machinery, in particular pumps. |
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| I have always dreamed of doing an exhibition of sundials and this is my chance. |
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| Further back, the Chinese and the Romans used clepsydras at about the same time, although Egyptian sundials go further back. |
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| The developments were not, however, in new types of clock, merely in improved designs of sundials and water clocks. |
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| However, sundials are a surprisingly unreliable means of telling the time. |
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| Advancement in science and technology was also sought by the rulers, and the Han invented paper, used water clocks and sundials, and developed a seismograph. |
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| While hard landscaping, water features, sundials, statuary and the like will constitute fixtures and fittings, free standing furniture can be taken with you when you move. |
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| Its massive sundials and other structures are a geometry of red sandstone inlaid with dazzling white marble, more like works of modern art than scientific instruments. |
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| We know of experiments he made with sundials, probably in 1646, and also a pasteboard model of the solar system which exhibited his artistic as well as astronomical skills. |
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| This is why hours were drawn in sundials in that manner, and why modern clocks have their numbers set in the same way. |
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| Both appear to be sundials with gnomon curves etched on a flat surface. |
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| There are other salient interdisciplinary projects, such as ceramic pie birds, sundials, Day of the Dead projects and mummy boxes with cat mummies. |
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