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Summary: Another great little wooden book!
Review: All in all a very good book, the material is lite and fun to read. He starts by defining various characteristics of the year (sun), then month (moon), and freckles these chapters with ideas about sacred geometry. Then he goes on to talk about eclipses and equinoctial rythms, and this part I really enjoyed, there must be about 6 or 7 chapters on the subject (all chapters are one pagers). The end of the book is completely devoted to sacred geometry, which is tastfully done, but not elaborated on very well. I was intregued by the book, because I've always thought it'd be possible to time the transition of one astrological age to another by using the Saros cycles of eclipses. The problem is which Saros do we use?2 other good books about "the ages" are, Jungian Syncronicity Through the Astrological Signs And Ages, by Alice O'Howell; and Galactic Alignment, by John Major Jenkins. Studying the works of Jung (Aion) and Plato (Timaeus) will help flesh out the concepts presented in these books too.
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Summary: Another great little wooden book!
Review: All in all a very good book, the material is lite and fun to read. He starts by defining various characteristics of the year (sun), then month (moon), and freckles these chapters with ideas about sacred geometry. Then he goes on to talk about eclipses and equinoctial rythms, and this part I really enjoyed, there must be about 6 or 7 chapters on the subject (all chapters are one pagers). The end of the book is completely devoted to sacred geometry, which is tastfully done, but not elaborated on very well. I was intregued by the book, because I've always thought it'd be possible to time the transition of one astrological age to another by using the Saros cycles of eclipses. The problem is which Saros do we use? 2 other good books about "the ages" are, Jungian Syncronicity Through the Astrological Signs And Ages, by Alice O'Howell; and Galactic Alignment, by John Major Jenkins. Studying the works of Jung (Aion) and Plato (Timaeus) will help flesh out the concepts presented in these books too.
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Summary: Excellent little book
Review: Beautifully done. This book explains the strange coincidence of the sun and the moon seen from earth. It should be read by everyone who takes the sky for granted so that they can appreciate just how special our location is.
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Summary: Really fun to read but some of the math doesn't check out?
Review: I was just checking the math on page 3 on the "Great Pyramid, Earth/Moon" geometry and found much of it to check out ok but there is one statement that the perimeter of a square with one side equal to the diameter of the Earth (4 x 7920 miles = 31680) equals the perimeter of a circle with a radius of the combined radii of the Earth and the Moon (3960 + 1080 = 5040 miles)and using 2xPIxr I get 38453 miles which really isn't equal at all. I found that you had to define the radius of the Earth as unity (1) and then using the Earth/Moon ratios that fall out from that would give a result where the circle is squared and the numbers do add up. That should have been explained more clearly.
Then when I compute 11!-7! I get 399170 on my calculator and when I ask Google to compute it for me they return that same answer. But on page 3 the author somehow gets 7920, which is amazingly, the diameter of the earth in miles. 11x10x9x8 does = 7920 which is amazing enough. Maybe it is the difference between (11!-7!) versus (11!) - (7!). I can't find any online factorial math tutorials to explain to me whether there is a difference. I wish the book was more clear on this. (update: I think it is a typo... if he meant to say 11!/7! all is well and good).
The book is filled with all sorts of little drawings and interesting tidbits and I am pretty sure that I am going to have all kinds of fun double checking this and verifying that....
Well worth the 8 bucks or so that Amazon is asking.
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Summary: Just what I needed!
Review: I was looking for something that wouldn't be too technical to give an overview (but not too superficial) about the movement of the sun, moon and earth. This was it! It talks about solstices and equinoxes, eclipses, lunar rhythms, cycles (long cycles and shorter ones), time/tide, the dance of the moon, wobbles, etc. It was just enough to provide a foundation of understanding and appreciation for what is going on around us.
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Summary: Just what I needed!
Review: I was looking for something that wouldn't be too technical to give an overview (but not too superficial) about the movement of the sun, moon and earth. This was it! It talks about solstices and equinoxes, eclipses, lunar rhythms, cycles (long cycles and shorter ones), time/tide, the dance of the moon, wobbles, etc. It was just enough to provide a foundation of understanding and appreciation for what is going on around us.
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Summary: Part Astronomy, Part Cosmology with a dash of Stonehenge
Review: Sun, Moon and Earth by Robin Heath is a short introduction to understanding the relation between the three celestial bodies in the title. The astronomy and geometry are written for a layman's level, without being too dry or technical, but not childish either. Heath details how the earth moves about the sun, with seasons and the calendar, as well as two types of lunar cycles, equinoxes, solstices, eclipses, etc. The book details how our calendar works and offers some interesting alternatives. There's even a short chapter about Stonehenge, which can be further explored in another volume by the same publisher.
I found it fascinating how much megalithic astronomers knew about the sun and moon cycles, especially the geometry, but then again, they didn't have much else to do and light pollution was almost non-existent then. Imagine what the sky looked like in 3000 BC! The book is full of cool illustrations and tables and overall is well put together.
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