People visiting the Cache Creek Nature Preserve will now be able to tell the time of day without looking at their cell phones. Well, the time may not be exact, but it should be close enough. Oh, and ...

The southeast side of the 10-story tower is marked with a great protruding gnomon sundial and the Champa Street side is carved with a black granite wall drawing by New York minimalist artist Sol ...

The wooden discs contained elements characteristic of sundial-compasses, such as a hole for a gnomon and perimeter notches. The Kyiv and Listven discs feature a central hole that could hold the ...

One reason for this is the disks’ design, with the Kyiv and Listven disks featuring a central hole that could hold the gnomon — the pointy component of a sundial that casts a shadow when hit with ...