When were sundials created?

Question

When were sundials created?

Answer 1

Around ancient greek times.

Answer 2

"It is not known exactly when the sundial was invented, or what people invented it. Sundials can be found in many ancient civilizations, including the Babylonian, Greek, Egyptian, and Roman ages."

"The oldest known dials at present are those of Grecian origin, and for the most part are of the Hemicyclean form invented by the Chaldean Berosus, who lived about 340 B.C. Four of these sundials were discovered in Italy: one at Tivoli in 1746, another at Castel Nuovo in 1751, another at Rignano in 1751, and the fourth at Pompeii in 1762. It is also evident that this form of sundial was used by the Arabians and was also popular among the Romans."

Answer 3

over 2,000 years ago.

just google it.

Answer 4

Egyptians used pyramids for sundials but they must of had them long before even the first pyramids were built as their civilization had knowlege of time, and even a time god(Horos), when their civilization began over 7000 years ago

Answer 5

it was an instrument invented in remote antiquity. a fairly efficient sundial of the Greek period was the 'hemispherium' which consisted of a hemispherical hollow cut in a block of stone, with a style rising from the bottom to a point level with the plane of the surface. the shadow of the point traced the daily path of the Sun (in reverse) very accurately. many medieval dials were very elaborate, and they often bore Latin mottoes referring to the brevity of human life. small portable sundials, oriented by compass, were once widely used.

Answer 6

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sundial#His...

Answer 7

Before recorded history, as soon as people noticed the way shadows swung round from west to east through the day.

Answer 8

Sun Dials for finding the time during the day are slightly more than 2000 years old (to our knowledge from surviving artifacts).

However, I firmly believe that they are probably a lot older.

Stonehenge (5000 years) is a form of Sun Dial (as well as a Moon Dial), although it was used for discerning seasons, months, weeks and equinoxes rather than day times, but who knows, the so called altar stone may have been a daytime sundial (albeit weathered out of recognition).

It is only called the altar stone because some Victorian wanted to appear knowledgeable.

There were of course ''Wood Henges'' even before Stonehenge, so I guess we may have always wanted to know the passage of time, as we are approx 200,000 years old as a creature (we have never been thick), the imagination and expectation can fly.

I believe that you can take it that as long as there have been organised groups of Mankind, they would have noticed a shadow moving and would have harnessed the fact.

Answer 9

The Babylonians over 4000 years ago, the British at stone henge 3500 years ago, and the Greeks about 2500 years ago, and probably long before that too. Its like asking who invented fire.

Answer 10

im not too sure, but i do know there is one in harrogate.

Answer 11

The sundial dates back to the Egyptian Period, around 1500 B.C. It was also used in ancient Greece and Rome. In central Europe it was the most commonly used method to determine the time, even after the mechanical clock was developed in the 14th century. The sundial was actually used to check and adjust the time on mechanical clocks until late into the 19th century.