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sem
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|  New Message Posted!2013-03-04 20:58
Always thought the septics were crazy.
Nice one jon.
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jonm
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| New Message Posted!2013-03-04 17:17
Now #1 in USA in non-fiction books about Stonehenge.
Paperback ranks
Not bad for a thread that started here on the MP. Work has gone crazy, sorry not been around much.
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jonm
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| New Message Posted!2013-02-22 11:37
Thanks Guys
Got so much engineering work in, I'm having difficulty keeping track. But one professor of archaeology wrote to say he agrees with the book (at least part 1 of it). Waiting to see what a few of the others say. Seems to be doing well in the USA at the moment (rankings).
All the best for moment
Jon
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Runemage
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|  New Message Posted!2013-02-15 21:37
Well done Jon, that's better than great news!
Rune
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Feanor
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| New Message Posted!2013-02-15 20:22
Thus the pebble begins its descent down the mountain ...
Excellent news my friend!
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jonm
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| New Message Posted!2013-02-15 17:28
Just been told that some schools are now using the ideas in the book (particularly part 2) to show children how to look scientifically at different perspectives.
The #1 spot didn't last long, but this is better.
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jonm
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| New Message Posted!2013-02-04 16:49
Now got to #1 in an Amazon Kindle science category!
Not sure how long it'll last so basking in the glory while I can. Thanks everyone!
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jonm
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| New Message Posted!2013-01-08 16:09
The same content is out as a paperback (thought sem was right)
Amazon UK: Stonehenge: Solving The Neolithic Universe
Amazon USA: Stonehenge: Solving The Neolithic Universe
Works out much more expensive in hard format though.
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jonm
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| New Message Posted!2013-01-04 15:59
A bit of news:
"Solving the Universe" will be available as a paperback sometime this month. Unlike the Kindle version, this will be black and white but will contain some additional reference material. I do not know what price it will be.
The Megalithic Portal review is below:
http://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=2146414126
(see below.. they did that quick.. I though it would be end of the month)
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| New Message Posted!2013-01-04 09:12
Hi Boreades
Almost any metal could be fashioned to work inside Stonehenge to produce a spectacular demonstration of fixed world knowledge. The main reason for suggesting tin is that it is an very easy metal to make a mirror from. Unalloyed tin "straight from the mine" does not have many uses, but small plate mirrors are a very good and very obvious early stage use for this material.
It also helps that Britain (and in particular Cornwall) was one of the few places that tin was in abundant supply. We now know, from Prof Parker Pearsons work (Stonehenge: Exploring the Greatest Stone Age Mystery), that copper, a more difficult material to work, was also in use at the time Stonehenge was built, so alloys are not impossible.
It's unfortunate that unalloyed tin degrades to a dust in the British Climate (a process known as Tin Pest). However it is very interesting that a 'table of metal', which fits the description of what would be required, was found at Stonehenge at the time of Henry the Eighth:
"I have heard that in the time of King Henrie the Eight, there was found neere this place a table of metall, as it had been tin and lead commixt, inscribed with many letters, but in so strange a Character, that neither Sir Thomas Eliot, nor master Lilye School-maister of Paules, could read it, and therefore neglected it. Had it been preserved, somewhat happily might have been discovered as concerning Stoneheng, which now lieth obscured"
From Anthony Johnson, quoting William Camben (1551-1623) P46: Solving Stonehenge
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