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I was just wondering why there is no reference here to the fact that the Greek word "gnomon" describes a figure similar to the letter "L" and that is in widespread use throughout the world as a "Carpenter's Square". Essentially the L shape is indicative that the figure adjoins to a square and thus produces the next larger square in a sequence of squares. For example, the gnomon on a square of 1 would be 3, that on a square of 4 would be 5, that on a square of 9 would be 7, and so forth.
We may want to include a picture from the Mars rover, seeing as most of those are of gnomons and they're all public domain. I'm not quite sure how to post them here, though.
Another definition of gnomon, from www.answers.com:
The geometric figure that remains after a parallelogram has been removed from a similar but larger parallelogram with which it shares a corner.
And this can be extended to mean something you cannot see (the missing part of the parallelogram) but can still guess it's there because of the stuff around it. You see the word used this way in lit-crit.
--If you look up gnomon on Merriam-Webster's online, and click to see the illustration, the relationship between the carpenter's square and the geometric definition of gnomon becomes clear. Perhaps it would be useful to include a similar illustration in the main article. Thanks. (I'm new to this, so please bear with me as I learn the ropes.)-- Mise-en-abyme 04:42, 15 November 2006 (UTC)
Why is the Gnomon workshop in this article and not on the disambiguation page? ..or why isn't all the other disambiguation page stuff crammed into this article too?
User:Gentlemath, do we really want the "History" section to be in bulleted-list format? (I undid it, but you reinstated it). I think it makes it harder to read and to understand any connections, because bulleted lists are usually reserved for lists of discreet items. Right now it looks more like a powerpoint slide than an article, and we all know how crummy powerpoint presentations are for presenting large amounts of text. ( Wikipedia's Manual of style agrees - "Bulleted and numbered lists: Do not use lists if a passage reads easily using plain paragraphs.")
I didn't do a very good job of turning it back into prose/text, but I think bulleting items is the wrong approach. - DavidWBrooks ( talk) 13:22, 3 May 2009 (UTC)
References
This page actually has hardly anything to do with China and also not much to do with time (sundial does). I didn't want to delete the headers but ....-- Gentlemath ( talk) 19:50, 4 May 2009 (UTC)
I am not able to make a reference on the line about Gnomons used during the Apollo Program to the footnote I made. Can somebody fix that for me? Thanks...I have not learned how to do it myself.
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I was just wondering why there is no reference here to the fact that the Greek word "gnomon" describes a figure similar to the letter "L" and that is in widespread use throughout the world as a "Carpenter's Square". Essentially the L shape is indicative that the figure adjoins to a square and thus produces the next larger square in a sequence of squares. For example, the gnomon on a square of 1 would be 3, that on a square of 4 would be 5, that on a square of 9 would be 7, and so forth.
We may want to include a picture from the Mars rover, seeing as most of those are of gnomons and they're all public domain. I'm not quite sure how to post them here, though.
Another definition of gnomon, from www.answers.com:
The geometric figure that remains after a parallelogram has been removed from a similar but larger parallelogram with which it shares a corner.
And this can be extended to mean something you cannot see (the missing part of the parallelogram) but can still guess it's there because of the stuff around it. You see the word used this way in lit-crit.
--If you look up gnomon on Merriam-Webster's online, and click to see the illustration, the relationship between the carpenter's square and the geometric definition of gnomon becomes clear. Perhaps it would be useful to include a similar illustration in the main article. Thanks. (I'm new to this, so please bear with me as I learn the ropes.)-- Mise-en-abyme 04:42, 15 November 2006 (UTC)
Why is the Gnomon workshop in this article and not on the disambiguation page? ..or why isn't all the other disambiguation page stuff crammed into this article too?
User:Gentlemath, do we really want the "History" section to be in bulleted-list format? (I undid it, but you reinstated it). I think it makes it harder to read and to understand any connections, because bulleted lists are usually reserved for lists of discreet items. Right now it looks more like a powerpoint slide than an article, and we all know how crummy powerpoint presentations are for presenting large amounts of text. ( Wikipedia's Manual of style agrees - "Bulleted and numbered lists: Do not use lists if a passage reads easily using plain paragraphs.")
I didn't do a very good job of turning it back into prose/text, but I think bulleting items is the wrong approach. - DavidWBrooks ( talk) 13:22, 3 May 2009 (UTC)
References
This page actually has hardly anything to do with China and also not much to do with time (sundial does). I didn't want to delete the headers but ....-- Gentlemath ( talk) 19:50, 4 May 2009 (UTC)
I am not able to make a reference on the line about Gnomons used during the Apollo Program to the footnote I made. Can somebody fix that for me? Thanks...I have not learned how to do it myself.