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Ancient Metrology, Vol I
A Numerical Code - Metrological Continuity in Neolithic, Bronze, and Iron Age Europe
Häftad, Engelska, 2016
211 kr
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The first of three volumes of John Neal's collected works. "Not only is the megalithic system largely ignored by archaeologists, it is opposed - even by the numerate among their ranks. This position is now untenable, as it can be shown that the megalithic yard shared an origin with the Sumerian cubit. And the foot-measure used in England - equivalent to a Greek foot - proves to have played a pivotal role in the whole metrological system. It is ironic that just as it is being thrown on the scrap heap of history, its historical importance is beginning to be recognised." Professor Michael Vickers, University of Oxford, review of Neal's work in Nature: International Weekly Journal of Science. 2001.
Ancient Metrology, Vol II
The Geographic Correlation: Arabian, Egyptian, and Chinese Metrology
Häftad, Engelska, 2017
211 kr
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The second of three volumes of John Neal’s collected works. “Ancient metrology - once the playground of Newton, but now largely ignored even by archaeologists - ought to cease to be a pariah subject and regain its place at the centre of the study of antiquity. In the past, the widely attested variations in ancient linear measurements have been put down to sloppiness on the part of our ancestors. But Neal is able to show that such variations belong to a logical, elegant and cohesive system partially based on divisions of the Earth’s surface at different points on the longitudinal meridian.” Professor Michael Vickers, University of Oxford, review of Neal’s work in Nature: International Weekly Journal of Science. 2001.
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Volume III from the three-part series combining the collected works of John Neal. Includes detailed analysis of Ancient Egyptian metrology, investigations into ancient American measures, and an introductory essay "The Demystification of Metrology".