From:
Bill Smith <besmith@zzzzzzzzzzzzzz>
Date:
Wed, 20 Oct 2004 11:14:02 -0500
Subject:
standing stones
Tom Blatt wrote:
Quoted text begins. How could I calculate the placement of the stones without first spending years observing the rising sun on these dates?
End of quote.
Perhaps some of these might help? I don't have time to go into them for
you, but if you have some hours, I think you will find what you want
here.
Bill
A Stonehenge Design Tool
http://www.cs.ucsd.edu/users/kube/solstice/computehenge.html
Design a Stonehenge
http://homepage.mac.com/astronomyteacher/dvhs/pdfs/stonehenge.pdf
Kepple Henge
http://www.steveirvine.com/henge.html
How was stonehenge built?
http://www.fortunecity.com/roswell/blavatsky/123/stonehbuilt.html
Sunwatched links
http://perso.wanadoo.es/sunwatch3d/english/links.htm
Female Anatomy Inspired Stonehenge?
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20030224/stonehenge.html
The Sun
Perhaps the most famous of all such sites in England however is
Stonehenge. Clearly an astronomical calculator, this site was apparently
used by ancient priest-astronomers to set the calendar and track the
heavens, as well as serving as a religious center. One of it's most
misunderstood aspects however concerns a stone called the Heel Stone.
For decades it has been debated why it so named, with all parties
apparently overlooking the obvious. At the height of it's alignment on
the summer solstice the sun rises directly "over" this stone, seeming to
sit on the top or perhaps rise up from within the stone itself. It is
the opinion of this author that the Heel stone is a corruption of Welsh
hayil, or Norse Hel, both of which mean "sun"! Likewise in the English
town of Helston, a stone once stood called the Hel Stone, though it has
long since been removed by zealous Christians.
http://paganastronomy.net/sun.htm*
*
Analemmatic sundials: How to build one and why they work
http://pass.maths.org/issue11/features/sundials/
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