gnomonist

• IPA^(key): /ˈnəʊmənɪst/

gnomonist (plural gnomonists)

1. One skilled in gnomonics; a person who makes sundials.
   • 1688, Robert Doyle, A Disquisition about the Final Causes of Natural Things:

     enable the Gnomonist to make Accurate Dials

   • 2012, René R.J. Rohr, Sundials: History, Theory, and Practice:

     There exist other procedures, current among astronomers and mariners, which require instruments not usually available to the gnomonists;

• “gnomonist”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.