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Sundials

Have you ever wondered how people worked out their ideas of telling the time? They used the position of the Sun in the sky. They used sundials

You can tell the time by looking at the shadow cast by the Sun as it shines on the pointer of a sundial. The proper name for the pointer is a gnomon (said 'nom-on')

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 A sundial

A gnomon