The Ancient Symbolic Landscape of Wessex.

Langue : anglais

Edité par Amberley Publishing, 2010

1445601699 / 9781445601694

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Softcover AS NEW, with b&w and colour illustrations and diagrams. With pp 160, with index. This book explores mankind's urge to impose order and meaning on the landscape in which we live. Through careful and reasonable argument, with the help of many illustrations and diagrams, Dr David Ride shows the countryside of Wessex to contain a series of related man-made structures, surveyed with astonishing precision and of great symbolic significance. The remarkable pattern is based on the heavens and depicts its stars, its fundamental reference points, and celestial mythology. It also conforms to the Vitruvian principle that temples should reflect the proportions of the human body. But how did it get there? The geometry and numerology of its design suggest that it belongs to the esoteric school of Pythagoras and was laid out in late Roman times. The focus of the pattern is the Rufus Stone in the New Forest, which symbolically marks the spot where William II was killed. It shares a similar significance with the 'navel stone' at Delphi in ancient Greece and provides the starting point for unearthing the secrets of the surrounding terrain. Dr Ride also discovers and interprets other notable features that are written across Wessex, including a huge representation of the constellation of Orion, the mythical River Eridanus, and the Milky Way. He is further able to argue that Stonehenge was precisely sited and constructed as an image of the pole star in the Neolithic Period or the Bronze Age, long before such accuracy was thought possible.…

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Titre
The Ancient Symbolic Landscape of Wessex.
Auteur
Ride, David.
Éditeur
Amberley Publishing
Année de publication
2010
État de l'article
As New
Reliure
Soft cover
Langue
anglais
ISBN à 10 chiffres
1445601699
ISBN à 13 chiffres
9781445601694
Catalogues du vendeur
England, History

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Deeside Books has been trading since 1997 and is a traditional bookshop located in the centre of the tourist village of Ballater on Royal Deeside in Aberdeenshire. We are located on the main A93 road from Aberdeen to Braemar, just eight miles from Balmoral Castle. Ballater is also within the scenic Cairngorms National Park. We have a stock of approximately 10,000 out of print, antiquarian and remainder books within the shop with specialisations in Scottish, Field Sports, Military, Climbing & Polar and Transport. In addition, we have a good selection of new books with an emphasis on new Scottish titles. Also we will have several thousand books listed on ABE and on our own website, www.deesidebooks.com .We offer a no obligation booksearch on our own website. …

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