 | Diogenes Laertius - 1853 - 504 Seiten
...; and the sun he affirmed to be not less than the earth, and the purest possible fire. III. He also was the first discoverer of the gnomon; and he placed some in Lacedaemon on the sun-dials there, as Pharorinus says in his Universal History, and they showed the... | |
 | Diogenes (Laertius) - 1853 - 504 Seiten
...; and the sun he affirmed to be not less than the earth, and the purest possible fire. III. He also was the first discoverer of the gnomon; and he placed some in Lacedsemon on the sun-dials there, as Pharorinus says in his Universal History, and they showed the... | |
 | Joseph Banvard - 1855 - 428 Seiten
...land and water upon an artificial globe. The invention of the sun-dial is ascribed to him. He also was the first discoverer of the gnomon; and he placed some in Lacedsemon, on the sun-dials there, as Pharorinus says in his Universal History, and they showed the... | |
 | Robert Brown - 1899 - 396 Seiten
...is constantly described as the inventor. So Diogenes, in the same passage, says that Anaximandros ' was the first discoverer of the gnomon ; and he placed...and they showed the solstices and the equinoxes.' But, as a matter of fact, Anaximandros was not ' the first discoverer of the gnomon ' ; for, as Ht-rodotos... | |
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Lacedsemon on the sun-dials there, as Pharorinus says in his Universal History, and they showed the solstices and the equinoxes; he also made clocks. He was the first person, too, who drew a map of the earth and sea, and he also made a globe... 