Pictures

If you have a few minutes to spare, below are colour pictures of some of the black and white images in the book. Best viewed in landscape (B&W used to keep costs down)

The Earth if a disc
Ch 5: The Earth if a disc:
Aligning to sunrise:
Ch 5: Aligning to sunrise:
Eastbourne.
Swyre Head
Ch 5: Swire Head, Dorset:
The mound at the Head.
Westards
Ch 5: Looking westwards from Swyre Head.
Looking west from Burling Gap
Ch 7: Looking west from Burling Gap:
Cliffs of the Seven Sisters.
Eastwards from Beachy Head
Ch 7: Eastwards from Beachy Head.
Two sets of sticks
Ch 7: Two sets of sticks:
Aligned with the horizon at sunset.
Bourne Hill
Ch 7: Bourne Hill (aka Willingdon Hill):
Seen from Combe Hill.
An extended water level.
Ch 8: An extended water level.
Creating a levelling platform
Ch 8: Creating a levelling platform:
(two stick version).
(using a timber block)
Ch 8: Measuring the angle down:
(using a timber block).
calculating angle
Ch 8: Calculating the angle down to the horizon
(using pennies)
Ch 8: Measuring the angle down:
(using pennies).
West from Windover/Wilmington Hill:
Ch 8: Looking west from Windover/Wilmington Hill:
A view to Wilmington Hill mound:
Ch 8: A view to Wilmington Hill mound:
(Bourne Hill and its mound in far distance).
Feddau seen from Eryr
Ch 9: Feddau seen from Eryr:
Eryr seen from Feddau
Ch 9: Eryr seen from Feddau:
The mound atop Cwmcerwyn
Ch 9: The mound atop Cwmcerwyn.
Silbury Hill
Ch 9: Silbury Hill
Newgrange
Ch 10: Newgrange.
Image
Ch 10: Unprocessed shadow image:
Lightbox
Ch 10: Newgrange:
Lightbox over the main entry.
West Kennet
Ch 10: West Kennet Long barrow.
Loughcrew
Ch 10: Loughcrew: Cairn T.
Pen y Fan and Corn Du
Ch 14: Pen y Fan and Corn Du:
Seen from Craig Cerrig Gleisiad.
On top of Corn Du
Ch 14: On top of Corn Du:
The mound at its summit.
Pen y Fan
Ch 14: Pen y Fan:
A view east from its summit.
Corn Du
Ch 14: Corn Du seen from Pen y Fan
At Pen y Fan
Ch 14: At Pen y Fan:
Setting up the cameras.
Pen y Fan; Slightly too high on its slope:
Ch 14: Pen y Fan; slightly too high on its slope:
Corn Du mound appears below horizon.
Pen y Fan; slightly too low on its slope:
Ch 14: Pen y Fan; slightly too low on its slope:
Corn Du mound appears above horizon.
Pen y Fan. The intersection height:
Ch 14: Pen y Fan; the intersection height:
Corn Du mound and the horizon meet.
1st rig
Appendices: First test rig:
With boiler and heat tank.
Second test rig(1):
Appendices: Second test rig (1):
Using roller-runners and guided frame.
Second test rig(2):
Appendices: Second test rig (2):
With boiler and heat tests.
Second test rig(3):
Appendices: Second test rig (3):
The whole assembly
Test rig with arm rotating around a polar axis
Appendices: Test rig with rotating polar axis:
(replaces roller set)
Test rig with arm rotating around a polar axis:
Appendices: Test rig with rotating polar axis:
In a scale model of a "pile of rocks in a field".