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| star pointer: point marking the position of a star, see article on the astrolabe.
| string gnomon: the part of a sundial which casts the shadow, where this part is in the form of a taut string.
| sun and moon dial: sundial that can also tell the time from the shadow cast by the moon, see article on the sundial.
| sundial: instrument of many different forms for finding the time from the position of the sun, usually by measuring the position of a shadow, see article on the sundial.
| sundial and dividers: a compound instrument combining the functions of both a sundial and dividers.
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