Anno's Sundial

by 安野 光雅

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Explains how the earth's movements around the sun and the resulting movement of shadows have been used to tell time. Includes illustrations that pop up or fold out to demonstrate how sundials work.

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Totally awesome and always worth a re-read even when half the pop-ups have been destroyed. But is it absolutely correct? Spherical trigonometry would help me determine this.

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Nonfiction, Children's Books
DDC/MDS
529.7Natural sciences & mathematicsAstronomyChronologyHorology
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QB215 .A66ScienceAstronomyAstronomyPractical and spherical astronomy

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