Civilization One: The World is Not as You Thought It Was
Christopher Knight, Alan Butler
Language: English
Pages: 272
ISBN: 1907486097
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
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Megalithic clock could work perfectly well without a clockwork mechanism or a dial. All we needed to create such a timepiece was for two of us to take turns to swing a pebble on the end of a piece of twine with our hands while the other counted off groups of completed beats. For example, a small stone could be put in a line for every 100 beats. This ‘man-clock’ would work well enough to allow for very accurate astronomical calculations to be carried out over several days if necessary. The time
dimensions, such as those of the King’s Chamber, indicate the use of a cubit very close to 524 mm, one can assume that the theoretical length of the side was 230,560 mm. The length of 524 mm for the cubit of the Pyramid has been confirmed by the endless measurements that have been applied to every detail.’7 The range of opinions is within a fraction of a millimetre and we are happy to take Stecchini’s highly authoritative opinion and consider the Egyptian royal cubit as being 52.4 centimetres.
and used the principle in almost all their later artistic creations. The Fibonaccian number of 233 from our 732 circle is composed of the numbers 89 and 144 added together. However, we had to face the possibility that the number 233 turning up in a Megalithic context was simply another coincidence and we certainly felt that we had to investigate the matter further. Then we noticed something rather peculiar when we brought the two irrational ratios of pi and phi together. Multiplying these
is it that the Moon conforms so elegantly and precisely to units devised by the Stone Age inhabitants of the British Isles and Brittany? As we thought about the result we could see that the fact that the Earth is 3.66 times larger than the Moon would produce this relationship – but who could have foreseen the astounding level of accuracy. However, it seemed that someone in the distant past had noticed the relationship. All this had to be part of the amazing importance of the number that the
is expected to carefully and objectively observe, collect and classify information before formulating a hypothesis in order to explain the data and to predict what might happen under various conditions. All theories are subject to modification or replacement as new knowledge is generated. If it were not so we would all still subscribe to the views of Thales who, in the 6th century BC, described the Earth as a flat disc floating on water that he called ‘the universal element’. The information we
