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Anaximander and gnomon (1)

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05 Scientific knowledge and scholarly lore



 		Keywords
presocratics
sundial
Period
3rd century CE
Roman Empire 		Channel
Helleno-Roman philosophers and scholars

Text
Anaximander is said to have first introduced the gnomon into Greece.

Diogenes Laërtius, Vitae Philosophorum 2.1:
He was the first inventor of the gnomon and set it up for a sundial in Lacedaemon … in order to mark the solstices and the equinoxes; he also constructed clocks to tell the time.

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Diogenes Laërtius, Vitae Philosophorum 2.1

Bibliography

Hicks 1950, I 130-131Hicks, R. D. Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers. 2 Vols. Loeb Classical Library. Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, London: Heinemann 1950.
Pingree 1998, 130Pingree, David. “Legacies in Astronomy and Celestial Omens.” In: S. Dalley (ed.). The Legacy of Mesopotamia. Oxford: Oxford University Press 1998, 125-137.

Amar Annus


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