Time stands still: New light on megalithic science

by Keith Critchlow

Paperback, 1979

Status

Available

Call number

936.1

Collection

Publication

Gordon Fraser (1979), Edition: 1st Ed., Paperback, 192 pages

Description

Keith Critchlow, an internationally-renowned scholar, has studied a wide range of Neolithic artefacts. In Time Stands Still, he adopts a technique of cross-cultural comparison to uncover some previously unknown characteristics of the Neolithic peoples.He takes ancient temple-building manuals from Indian Vedic sources, for example, and applies them to British sites -- with fascinating results. He examines Chinese pictographs for evidence of sighting instruments and scientific tools. Perhaps most significantly, he offers evidence that stone-carved spheres with regular mathematical symmetries, found in Scotland, pre-date Plato's writings on geometric figures by more than a thousand years.The remarkable findings of this groundbreaking book are just as important today as when the book was first published.… (more)

Language

Physical description

192 p.; 9.9 inches

ISBN

0860920402 / 9780860920403

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