Isbn: 9780863155543 - megalithic measures and rhythms: sacred knowledge of the ancient britons (7 resultados)

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hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. Signed. Signed by Vivian T. Linacre and Richard A. Batchelor with inscription to former owner on front fly-leaf. Text clean and binding solid. General wear to jacket.

Hardback. Anne Macaulay, Floris Books. The huge stone circles built in the British Isles and northwest France from 6,500 to 3,500 years ago are among civilization's strangest monuments. Ignored or plundered for centuries, they have only in modern times begun to reveal their remarkable complexity. It is now widely acknowledged that these ancient sites were precisely aligned to major celestial events, probably linked to the agricultural calendar of early farming settlements. But the mystery remains as to how the megalithic builders achieved such extraordinary accuracy in their measurement. Inspired by the surveying work of Alexander Thom, Anne Macaulay devoted her life to an investigation of the stone circle sites, seeking out their hidden geometry and deeper cultural significance. In this book, she draws on ideas from geometry and metrology, archaeology and anthropology, history and mythology, astronomy and music. Macaulay concludes that the extraordinary mathematical skills of the British megalithic builders was original and self-contained, but that in turn, the elite of this society became the proto-Greeks, their knowledge flowing to the Eastern Mediterranean. Hardback.…

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. Previous owner's label on the front, otherwise near fine condition. Three pages have had their top corners folded over. A very good, clean copy.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. Hardback book (very good) in dust jacket (very good). The pages are bright, unmarked and tightly bound. Trivial bruise at the top corner of the front and rear boards. Small rub of the jacket surface at the base of the spine of the jacket. No other chips or tears on the jacket which is not price clipped and has only trivial touches of shelf wear. Mailed the same or next working day in a cardboard book box.…

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Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. First Edition. jacket edges have shelve wear. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.