gnomonist

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gnomonist (plural gnomonists)

  1. One skilled in gnomonics; a person who makes sundials.
    • 1688, Robert Doyle, A Disquisition about the Final Causes of Natural Things:
      enable the Gnomonist to make Accurate Dials
    • 2012, René R.J. Rohr, Sundials: History, Theory, and Practice:
      There exist other procedures, current among astronomers and mariners, which require instruments not usually available to the gnomonists;

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