Mark Vidler is an artist, designer, and carpenter who studied at the Hornsey School of Art, the Polytechnic of Central London, and Bath Academy. The author of The Star Mirror, he has studied early history and the stellar alignments of ancient monuments since 1994. Catherine Young spent her childhood in Africa, Italy, and Austria before graduating from Bristol University in England. She teaches English at a school in Wiltshire. Both authors live in Bradford-on-Avon, Wiltshire, U.K.
Acknowledgments
Foreword Keys to Earth’s Sacred Geometry by Rand Flem-Ath
1 Signposts in the Landscape
2 Patterns in the Hills
3 Measured Monuments
4 Earth Measurements
5 Circular Reasoning
6 Mountains and Monuments
7 Almendres
8 A Line to Everest
9 Intercontinental
10 American Monuments
11 Copying Nature
12 Cold Continent
13 Angkor
14 Neolithic Language
15 Pi and the Songlines
16 Views from the Past
Appendix 1 Common Geometric Shapes among Extreme Points surrounding Cornish
Stone Circles
Appendix 2 Maeshowe Detail
Notes
Bibliography
Index