G -threads glossary

GEOLOGY

"Geology is the physical history of the earth and its inhabitants, as recorded in its structure. It inchides an account of the changes through which they have passed, the laws of these changes, and their causes. In a word, it is the history of the evolution of the earth and its inhabitants.   -Joseph Le Conte

GNOMON

GNOMON, in Dialling , the style, pin, or cock of a dial, which by its shadow shows the hour of the day.

The gnomon of every dial reprefents the axis of the earth: .— The word is Greek, which literally implies something that makes a thing known;  by reason that the style or pin indicates or makes the hour known.

Gnomon, in astronoomy, a style erected perpendicular to the horizon, in order to find the altitude of the sun.  -source 1815 edition of Encyclopedia Britannica

GOSSAMER:

The often unseen thread like substance spun by spiders in the natural world; the wispy and delicate web work that may be seen shimmering in landscapes when light reflects upon it; subtle insubstantial thread like webs connecting objects in a landscape and usually unobserved by uninterested eye.