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Show Romance of a Shadow. It Is hnrd to bellevo that a shadow Is probably the origin of all astronomical, astro-nomical, geometrical and geographical science. Tho first man who fixed his staff perpendicularly lit tho ground and moasurod Its shadow was tho earliest -computer of time, and tho Arab of today who plants his spear In tho sand, and marks where the shadow falls, Is his direct descendant. It Is from tho shadow of a gnomon that tho darly Egyptians told tho length of tho year. It Is from the shadow of a gnomon that the Inhabitants Inhab-itants of upper Egypt still measure tho hours of work for a water wheel. In this caso tho gnomon Is a lhurra stalk supported on forked uprights, and polntb north and south. East and west are pegs In the groupd, ovonly marking tho spaoo of earth between sunrise and sunset. In n land of constant con-stant sunshine a shadow was the primitive chronometer. It was also the primitive foot rulo. London T. P.'s Weekly. J I' ! |