The Basilica of St. Mary of the Angels and of the Martyrs is a Catholic titular minor basilica and former Carthusian conventual church in Rome constructed in the ruined frigidarium and tepidarium of t
The church facade is an apse in the wall of the caldarium of the Baths of Diocletian.
The transept, with Roman columns, vaults and thermal bath windows
Vault ceiling
Entrance to the basilica
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A sundial is a horological device that tells the time of day when direct sunlight shines by the apparent position of the Sun in the sky. In the narrowest sense of the word, it consists of a flat plate
SSW facing, vertical declining sundial on the Moot Hall in Aldeburgh, Suffolk, England. The gnomon is a rod that is very narrow, so it functions as the style. The Latin motto loosely translates as "I only count the sunny hours."
A horizontal dial commissioned in 1862, the gnomon is the triangular blade. The style is its inclined edge.
Bowstring sundial in Singapore Botanic Gardens. The design shows that Singapore is located almost at the equator.
World's oldest sundial, from Egypt's Valley of the Kings (c. 1500 BC)