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Stonehenge and Other British Stone Monuments Astronomically Considered, by Norman Lockyer, [1906], at sacred-texts.com

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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

FIG.		PAGE
1.	Present Sun Worship in Japan	4
2.	The Celestial Sphere, Conditions at the North Pole	5
3.	The Celestial Sphere, Conditions at the Equator	6
4.	The Celestial Sphere, Conditions in a Middle Latitude	6
5.	The Four Astronomical Divisions of the Year	14
6.	The Various Bearings of the Sun Risings and Settings in N. latitude 51°	14
7.	The Astronomical and Vegetation Divisions of the Year	23
8.	Original Tooling of the Stones at Stonehenge	44
9.	View of Stonehenge front the West	45
10.	Copy of Hoare's Plan of Stonehenge, 1810	46
11.	The Leaning Stone in 1901	48
12.	The Axis of the Temple of Karnak	66
13.	Plan of the Temple of Ramses II. in the Memnonia at Thebes	67
14.	One of the remaining Trilithons at Stonehenge	59
15.	General Plan of Stonehenge	60
16.	The Arrangements for raising the Stone	70
17.	The Cradle and Supports	71
18.	The Frame used to locate the Finds	73
19.	Some of the Flint Implements	77
20.	Showing the careful Tooling of the Sarsens	82
21.	Face of Rock against which a Stone was made to rest	83
22.	The Leaning Stone Upright	85
23.	Stonehenge, 1905	86
24.	Map of the Stones made by the Ordnance Survey	89
25.	Rod placed in the Common Axis of the Circle and Avenue	94
26.	Alignments at Le Ménec	99
27.	Menhir on Melon Island	100
28.	Melon Island, showing Menhir and Cromlech	101
29.	Menhirs of St. Dourzal	102
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FIG.		PAGE
30.	Alignment at Lagatjar (photograph)	103
31.	Alignments at Lagatjar (plan)	104
32.	Menhirs on Solstitial and May Alignments	105
33.	Diagram for finding Declination from given Amplitudes or Azimuths in British Latitudes	113
34.	Declinations of Northern Stars from 250 A.D. to 2150 B.C.	115
35.	Declinations of Southern Stars from 250 A.D. to 2150 B.C.	116
36.	The Conditions of Sunrise at the Summer Solstice in Lat. 59´ N	119
37.	The Azimuths of the Sunrise (upper limb) at the Summer Solstice. Late. N. 59°-47°	121
38.	Maeshowe and the Stones of Stenness	124
39.	Chief Sight-Lines from the Stones of Stenness	126
40.	Variation of the Obliquity of the Ecliptic 100 A.D.-4000 B.C.	130
41.	The Sight-Lines at the Hurlers	136
42.	The Southern Avenue at Merrivale, looking East	147
43.	Avenues, Circle and Stones at Merrivale, with their Azimuths	154
44.	Cursus at Stonehenge, nearly parallel to the Merrivale Avenue	155
45.	The remains of the Challacombe Avenue	159
46.	The Sight-Lines at Trowlesworthy	162
47.	The Circles and Avenues at Stanton Drew	169
48.	The Carro, Florence	194
49.	Cresset-Stone, Lewannick	257
50.	First Appearance of May Sun in British Latitudes	263
51.	Azimuths of the May Sunrise	264
52.	The Merry Maidens	269
53.	25-inch Ordnance Map of Merry Maidens showing Alignments	275
54.	The Eastern Circle at Tregaseal	279
55.	Photograph of Ordnance Map showing Sight-lines	281
56.	Plan of the Mên-an-Tol	283
57.	Photograph of the Mên-an-Tol	284
58.	The Mên-an-Tol. Front View and Section	285
59.	Photograph of the Ordnance Map of Boscawen-un	288
60.	Diagram showing Azimuths of Sunrise 1680 B.C. and 1905 A.D.	290
61.	Arcturus and Capella as Clock-Stars in Britain	300
62.	A Night-Dial	303
63.	Layard's Plan of the Palace of Sennacherib	305
64.	Layard's Plan of the Mound at Nimrood	307
65.	The Temples at Chichen Itza	307

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