
Stonehenge and Other British Stone Monuments Astronomically Considered, by Norman Lockyer, [1906], at sacred-texts.com
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Present Sun Worship in Japan | |
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The Celestial Sphere, Conditions at the North Pole | |
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The Celestial Sphere, Conditions at the Equator | |
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The Celestial Sphere, Conditions in a Middle Latitude | |
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The Four Astronomical Divisions of the Year | |
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The Various Bearings of the Sun Risings and Settings in N. latitude 51° | |
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The Astronomical and Vegetation Divisions of the Year | |
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Original Tooling of the Stones at Stonehenge | |
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View of Stonehenge front the West | |
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Copy of Hoare's Plan of Stonehenge, 1810 | |
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The Leaning Stone in 1901 | |
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The Axis of the Temple of Karnak | |
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Plan of the Temple of Ramses II. in the Memnonia at Thebes | |
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One of the remaining Trilithons at Stonehenge | |
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General Plan of Stonehenge | |
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The Arrangements for raising the Stone | |
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The Cradle and Supports | |
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The Frame used to locate the Finds | |
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Some of the Flint Implements | |
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Showing the careful Tooling of the Sarsens | |
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Face of Rock against which a Stone was made to rest | |
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The Leaning Stone Upright | |
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Stonehenge, 1905 | |
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Map of the Stones made by the Ordnance Survey | |
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Rod placed in the Common Axis of the Circle and Avenue | |
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Alignments at Le Ménec | |
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Menhir on Melon Island | |
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Melon Island, showing Menhir and Cromlech | |
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Menhirs of St. Dourzal | |
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Alignment at Lagatjar (photograph) | |
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Alignments at Lagatjar (plan) | |
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Menhirs on Solstitial and May Alignments | |
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Diagram for finding Declination from given Amplitudes or Azimuths in British Latitudes | |
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Declinations of Northern Stars from 250 A.D. to 2150 B.C. | |
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Declinations of Southern Stars from 250 A.D. to 2150 B.C. | |
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The Conditions of Sunrise at the Summer Solstice in Lat. 59´ N | |
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The Azimuths of the Sunrise (upper limb) at the Summer Solstice. Late. N. 59°-47° | |
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Maeshowe and the Stones of Stenness | |
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Chief Sight-Lines from the Stones of Stenness | |
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Variation of the Obliquity of the Ecliptic 100 A.D.-4000 B.C. | |
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The Sight-Lines at the Hurlers | |
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The Southern Avenue at Merrivale, looking East | |
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Avenues, Circle and Stones at Merrivale, with their Azimuths | |
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Cursus at Stonehenge, nearly parallel to the Merrivale Avenue | |
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The remains of the Challacombe Avenue | |
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The Sight-Lines at Trowlesworthy | |
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The Circles and Avenues at Stanton Drew | |
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The Carro, Florence | |
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Cresset-Stone, Lewannick | |
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First Appearance of May Sun in British Latitudes | |
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Azimuths of the May Sunrise | |
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The Merry Maidens | |
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25-inch Ordnance Map of Merry Maidens showing Alignments | |
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The Eastern Circle at Tregaseal | |
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Photograph of Ordnance Map showing Sight-lines | |
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Plan of the Mên-an-Tol | |
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Photograph of the Mên-an-Tol | |
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The Mên-an-Tol. Front View and Section | |
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Photograph of the Ordnance Map of Boscawen-un | |
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Diagram showing Azimuths of Sunrise 1680 B.C. and 1905 A.D. | |
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Arcturus and Capella as Clock-Stars in Britain | |
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A Night-Dial | |
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Layard's Plan of the Palace of Sennacherib | |
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Layard's Plan of the Mound at Nimrood | |
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The Temples at Chichen Itza |