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Sundial: gnomon and solar time | Tangente
Mar 16, 2026
Math for everyone
Moon dial: telling time on clear nights | Tangente
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Horizontal sundial: formula and hour lines | Tangente
Mar 16, 2026
History and Culture
Dieppe dials: ivory masterpieces | Tangente
Mar 16, 2026
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Altitude dials: time without a compass | Tangente
Mar 16, 2026
History and Culture
Nuremberg diptych sundial | Tangente
Mar 16, 2026
History and Culture
Butterfield dial: portable sundial | Tangente
Mar 16, 2026
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Equinox sundial: solar time and latitude | Tangente
Mar 16, 2026
History and Culture
The Alberti cipher disk: A pioneer of cryptography | Tangente
Mar 16, 2026
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Bifilar sundial: time from two shadows | Tangente
Mar 16, 2026
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Cylindrical sundial with a truncated cylindrical dial | Tangente
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Azimuthal sundial: telling time by azimuth | Tangente
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Analemmatic sundial, elliptical sundial | Tangente
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History and Culture
Cadastre: land surveying and geometry | Tangente
Mar 16, 2026
History and Culture
Renato Caccioppoli, Neapolitan mathematician | Tangente
Mar 16, 2026
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Étienne Bézout, 18th-century mathematician | Tangente
Mar 16, 2026
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Jost Bürgi, co-inventor of logarithms | Tangente
Mar 16, 2026
History and Culture
Pierre Bézier: engineer and Bézier curves | Tangente
Mar 16, 2026
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Marginal profit: definition in economics | Tangente
Mar 16, 2026
History and Culture
Behaviorism and mathematics education | Tangente
Mar 16, 2026