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Solstice & Equinox. Standing among the giant slabs, Hawkins was struck by the way the early architects had limited his exterior view. Looking through one of the narrow trilithons and an aligned archway in the outer ring, he writes, "I felt that my field of observation was being tightly controlled, as...
The computer yielded some tantalizing results. Many of the Stonehenge alignments accurately pointed to the summer and winter solstice positions of the rising and setting sun and moon -the extreme north and south latitudes reached only on midsummer day and on midwinter day, the shortest day in the year. Thus...
Mysterious Circle. Hawkins believes that Stonehenge astronomy was so advanced that its experts had apparently noted a phenomenon undetected even by modern astronomers: eclipses of the moon occur in cycles of 56 years. Hawkins, who inadvertent'v rediscovered the cycle after running Stonehenge eclipse data throuah a computer, immediately...
From all this, Hawkins assumes that Stonehenge was the focal point of an early British civilization. It was the calendar by which the Britons planted and harvested their crops, a shrine where they worshiped their gods and buried their dead. It was also a device that priest-rulers could have...
The computer has become a main stay of big business in the U.S., but most small and medium-sized companies still find it too expensive for normal use. Last week two of the biggest com puter makers, General Electric and Control Data Corp., introduced new systems that will offer the...