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Form of quartz with coloured bands
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Hint 1 meaning
A semipellucid, uncrystallized variety of quartz, presenting
various tints in the same specimen. Its colors are delicately arranged
in stripes or bands, or blended in clouds.
Hint 2 anagram
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CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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Sentences with HELIOTROPION (5)
Sometimes, and perhaps more properly, it was called a _Heliotropion_, that is, an instrument designed to indicate the turning of the Sun at the Tropics.[28] This, be it remembered, was information needed by the ancients for the correct regulation of the seasons of the year, and of special service to the Jews whose greater festivals were fixed in connection with the seasons.
Diogenes Laërtius refers to this same instrument when he speaks of the Heliotropion preserved in the Island of Syra.[30] According to Laërtius, Anaximander[31] was the first Greek to use gnomons, which he placed on the Sciothera of Lacedæmon, for the express purpose of indicating the Tropics and Equinoxes.
The _Polos_ or _Heliotropion_ was no doubt a superior instrument to the earliest _Gnomon_, but, from its being so seldom mentioned, we may suppose it not to have been so generally used.
The green jasper, as before stated, was also known as the Heliotropion (Heliotrope), a word derived from Greek HELIOS, the sun, and TROPOS, a turn—probably in allusion to the planet Mercury which turns nearest the Sun.
The _gnomon_ or _stocheion_ of the GREEKS was a perpendicular staff or pillar, the shadow of which fell upon a properly marked ground; the _polos_ or _heliotropion_ consisted of a perpendicular staff, in a basin in which the twelve parts of the day were marked by lines.