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Stonehenge by Robin Heath Walker Books, April, 2002. Hardcover, 58 pages. ISBN: 0802713858 Ordering information: Amazon.com | Amazon.co.uk 
Stonehenge is a short, beautifully illustrated book
that is loaded with new research that
is not widely known. For instance, it is generally
taught in social studies courses that today's
Western culture (i.e., architecture, mathematics, etc.)
has gradually migrated from Egypt, Sumer and
then up through Greece and to Rome. In the late
1960s, however, studies at Stonehenge and other
sites pushed the dates of their construction to over
3,000 years ago, thus leading to the conclusion that
the structures and the accompanying
astronomy and mathematics that produced them
pre-dated the pyramids of Egypt. Stonehenge is
filled with engravings from rare books and from drawings
by the author that illustrate without a doubt that the prehistoric
culture of Britain was sophisticated enough to predict
geometry lunar eclipses, sun and moon positions
and even the state of sea tides. Stonehenge has only 56 pages, but
every page is packed with facts and illustrations that
most readers will find thought-provoking.
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