Author: Ian CookePublisher:
ISBN: 9780951237137
Category : Cornwall (England : County)
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Guide to the Merry Maidens Stone Circle and Other Nearby Ancient Sites
Author: Ian CookePublisher:
ISBN: 9780951237137
Category : Cornwall (England : County)
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Guide to the Merry Maids Stone Circle and Other Nearby Ancient Sites
Author: Ian CookeA Guide to the Stone Circles of Britain, Ireland and Brittany
Author: Aubrey BurlPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300114065
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
This practical and knowledgeable guidebook deals comprehensively with the stone circles of Britain and Ireland and with the cromlechs and megalithic "horseshoes" of Brittany. This new edition includes a section on "Druidical" circles, romantic creations of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. "This book is not only an elegant and practical guide, it is also the best single-volume study of this extraordinary phenomenon, embracing 500 monuments from Shetland to Brittany. . . . Confident, erudite, pleasurable, this volume can be recommended as travel guide, archaeology, literature, and sheer good company."--Ian Sheperd, British Archaeology "This is a wonderful book and is a must for anyone remotely interested in things megalithic."--Paul Walsh, Archaeology Ireland
Guide to the Archaeological Sites of Britain
Author: Peter A. ClaytonPublisher: B. T. Batsford Limited
ISBN:
Category : Excavations (Archaeology)
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
The Modern Antiquarian
Author: Julian CopePublisher: HarperThorsons
ISBN: 9780722535998
Category : Antiquities, Prehistoric
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
In this unique guide to Britain's megalithic culture, rock n' roller Julian Cope provides an inspired fusion of travel, history, poetry, maps, field notes, and pure passion.
Landmark Visitors Guide Cornwall & the Isles of Scilly
Author: Rita Tregellas PopePublisher: Hunter Publishing, Inc
ISBN: 9781843062110
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
This work divides Cornwall and the Scilly Isles into nine geographical areas, each chapter features a map and a car route as well as being packed with information about sights, beaches, walks, entertainments and things to do when it rains.
Appleton's European Guide Book Illustrated
Author: A. AppletonThe Old Stones of the West of England
Author: Andy BurnhamPublisher: Watkins
ISBN: 1786782391
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
This ebook covers the Neolithic and Bronze Age remains of Cornwall, Devon, Somerset, Gloucestershire and Dorset. If you’re looking to visit as many iconic megalithic sites in as short a time as possible, then West Penwith, at the very tip of Cornwall, should be high on your list, with its famous holed stone at Mên-an-Tol, the leaning pillar inside the circle of Boscawen-ûn, and much else. But there are many other treasures to find throughout the region. Dartmoor is famous for its stone rows (around 86 of these have been identified), and Exmoor for the challenge of its hard-to-spot “minilithic” settings. Britain’s second-largest stone circle is at Stanton Drew in Somerset, while the 10km (6 mile) long Dorest Cursus is probably Britain’s largest Neolithic site. If you’re visiting Gloucestershire, you may also want to download The Old Stones of Wales ebook as the sites here are very close to South Wales. The Old Stones of the West of England is part of a series covering the megalithic and other prehistoric sites of Britain and Ireland. The series is published together as The Old Stones: A Field Guide to the Megalithic Sites of Britain and Ireland, available as a book and an ebook.
The National Trust Guide to Prehistoric and Roman Britain
Author: Richard MuirPublisher: Osprey Publishing (UK)
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Neptune: From Grand Discovery to a World Revealed
Author: William SheehanPublisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030542181
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 403
Book Description
The 1846 discovery of Neptune is one of the most remarkable stories in the history of science and astronomy. John Couch Adams and U.J. Le Verrier both investigated anomalies in the motion of Uranus and independently predicted the existence and location of this new planet. However, interpretations of the events surrounding this discovery have long been mired in controversy. Who first predicted the new planet? Was the discovery just a lucky fluke? The ensuing storm engaged astronomers across Europe and the United States. Written by an international group of authors, this pathbreaking volume explores in unprecedented depth the contentious history of Neptune’s discovery, drawing on newly discovered documents and re-examining the historical record. In so doing, we gain new understanding of the actions of key individuals and sharper insights into the pressures acting on them. The discovery of Neptune was a captivating mathematical moment and was widely regarded at the time as the greatest triumph of Newton’s theory of universal gravitation. The book therefore begins with Newton’s development of his ideas of gravity. It examines too the mathematical calculations related to the discovery of Neptune, using new theories and tools provided by advances in celestial mechanics over the past twenty years. Through this process, the book analyzes why the mathematical approach that proved so potent in the discovery of Neptune, grand as it was, could not help produce similar discoveries despite several valiant attempts. In the final chapters, we see how the discovery of Neptune marked the end of one quest—to explain the wayward motions of Uranus—and the beginning of another quest to fill in the map and understand the nature of the outer Solar System, whose icy precincts Neptune, as the outermost of the giant planets, bounds.