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HOW SUNDIALS TELL TIME

umans have used the Sun to monitor the passing of time for thousands of years. For example, Stonehenge is believed to have been erected around 2,500 BCE, constructed in such a way that each stone aligns with the Sun’s rise during the summer solstice and the sunsets of the winter solstice. However, like so many other technological inventions, the timekeeping sundial seems to have emerged from the minds

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