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Stonehenge and Other British Stone Monuments Astronomically Considered, by Norman Lockyer, [1906], at sacred-texts.com


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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

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1.

Present Sun Worship in Japan

4

2.

The Celestial Sphere, Conditions at the North Pole

5

3.

The Celestial Sphere, Conditions at the Equator

6

4.

The Celestial Sphere, Conditions in a Middle Latitude

6

5.

The Four Astronomical Divisions of the Year

14

6.

The Various Bearings of the Sun Risings and Settings in N. latitude 51°

14

7.

The Astronomical and Vegetation Divisions of the Year

23

8.

Original Tooling of the Stones at Stonehenge

44

9.

View of Stonehenge front the West

45

10.

Copy of Hoare's Plan of Stonehenge, 1810

46

11.

The Leaning Stone in 1901

48

12.

The Axis of the Temple of Karnak

66

13.

Plan of the Temple of Ramses II. in the Memnonia at Thebes

67

14.

One of the remaining Trilithons at Stonehenge

59

15.

General Plan of Stonehenge

60

16.

The Arrangements for raising the Stone

70

17.

The Cradle and Supports

71

18.

The Frame used to locate the Finds

73

19.

Some of the Flint Implements

77

20.

Showing the careful Tooling of the Sarsens

82

21.

Face of Rock against which a Stone was made to rest

83

22.

The Leaning Stone Upright

85

23.

Stonehenge, 1905

86

24.

Map of the Stones made by the Ordnance Survey

89

25.

Rod placed in the Common Axis of the Circle and Avenue

94

26.

Alignments at Le Ménec

99

27.

Menhir on Melon Island

100

28.

Melon Island, showing Menhir and Cromlech

101

29.

Menhirs of St. Dourzal

102

 

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30.

Alignment at Lagatjar (photograph)

103

31.

Alignments at Lagatjar (plan)

104

32.

Menhirs on Solstitial and May Alignments

105

33.

Diagram for finding Declination from given Amplitudes or Azimuths in British Latitudes

113

34.

Declinations of Northern Stars from 250 A.D. to 2150 B.C.

115

35.

Declinations of Southern Stars from 250 A.D. to 2150 B.C.

116

36.

The Conditions of Sunrise at the Summer Solstice in Lat. 59´ N

119

37.

The Azimuths of the Sunrise (upper limb) at the Summer Solstice. Late. N. 59°-47°

121

38.

Maeshowe and the Stones of Stenness

124

39.

Chief Sight-Lines from the Stones of Stenness

126

40.

Variation of the Obliquity of the Ecliptic 100 A.D.-4000 B.C.

130

41.

The Sight-Lines at the Hurlers

136

42.

The Southern Avenue at Merrivale, looking East

147

43.

Avenues, Circle and Stones at Merrivale, with their Azimuths

154

44.

Cursus at Stonehenge, nearly parallel to the Merrivale Avenue

155

45.

The remains of the Challacombe Avenue

159

46.

The Sight-Lines at Trowlesworthy

162

47.

The Circles and Avenues at Stanton Drew

169

48.

The Carro, Florence

194

49.

Cresset-Stone, Lewannick

257

50.

First Appearance of May Sun in British Latitudes

263

51.

Azimuths of the May Sunrise

264

52.

The Merry Maidens

269

53.

25-inch Ordnance Map of Merry Maidens showing Alignments

275

54.

The Eastern Circle at Tregaseal

279

55.

Photograph of Ordnance Map showing Sight-lines

281

56.

Plan of the Mên-an-Tol

283

57.

Photograph of the Mên-an-Tol

284

58.

The Mên-an-Tol. Front View and Section

285

59.

Photograph of the Ordnance Map of Boscawen-un

288

60.

Diagram showing Azimuths of Sunrise 1680 B.C. and 1905 A.D.

290

61.

Arcturus and Capella as Clock-Stars in Britain

300

62.

A Night-Dial

303

63.

Layard's Plan of the Palace of Sennacherib

305

64.

Layard's Plan of the Mound at Nimrood

307

65.

The Temples at Chichen Itza

307

 


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