Earth Grids

Hugh Newman

Description

Do ancient maps prove that the planet was surveyed 12,000 years ago? Were the poles once in a different position to where they are today? Is there a secret pattern joining the great sites of antiquity? In this revolutionary little book, ancient sites expert Hugh Newman outlines various theories concerning geometry in the distribution of sacred sites on Earth and comes to some startling conclusions. Illustrated throughout with fantastic graphics, this book will change your world. WOODEN BOOKS are small but packed with information. "Fascinating" FINANCIAL TIMES. "Beautiful" LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS. "Rich and Artful" THE LANCET. "Genuinely mind-expanding" FORTEAN TIMES. "Excellent" NEW SCIENTIST. "Stunning" NEW YORK TIMES. Small books, big ideas.

Sujets

• Sciences et techniques
• Earth science

Informations

• Publié par: Wooden Books
• Date de parution: 01 avril 2018
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781912706068
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 14 Mo

Extrait

First published 2008
Revised and updated edition 2012
eBook edition © Wooden Books Ltd 2018
Published by Wooden Books Ltd. Glastonbury, Somerset.
British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Newman, H.
Earth Grids
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eBook ISBN: 978-1-912706-06-8
Physical ISBN: 978-1-904263-64-7
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EARTH GRIDS
THE SECRET PATTERNS OF GAIA’S SACRED SITES
Hugh Newman
I would like to especially thank my mother Meg Ketch, as well as Shaun Kirwan, Geoff Stray Bethe Hagens, Rand Flem-Ath, Robin Heath, Roy Snelling and my editor John Martineau. Thanks to the following for their illustrations: Bethe Hagens and William Becker for numerous images, Allan Holloway (p.25,41,55), Emmanuel Martin (p. 9, 44), Shaun Kirwan (p.7), Janet Lloyd Davies (p. 29). Thanks for image use to: Paul Devereux, John Michell, Ian Thompson, John Burke, David H. Childress, Rand Flem-Ath, David Zink, Bruce Cathie, Nicholas Mann, Richard Dannelly and Robert Coon. Images created from John Martineau’s World Grid program and ‘Google Earth’ with Bethe Hagens’ ‘UVG grid’ application.
Further reading: “The Atlantis Blueprint” by Rand Flem-Ath & Colin Wilson, “Anti-Gravity & the World Grid” ed. David Hatcher Childress, “The World Atlas of Mysteries” by Francis Hitchin, “The Energy Grid” by Bruce Cathie, and “the Measure of Albion” by John Michell and Robin Heath.
Above: Mecca at the Golden Section of the French World Map. Golden latitudes occur at 21.25 o North and South of the Equator. Mecca’s latitude is 21.42 o N, a mere 11.5 miles north of the Golden latitude. Golden longitudes occur 42.49 o E and W of the moveable 0 o meridian. Using the old 0 o meridian through Paris the Golden meridian passes a mere 19 miles east of Mecca (after Martineau).
CONTENTS
Introduction
1
The Earth
2
The Geomagnetic Field
4
Leys and Dragon Lines
6
Grid Beginnings
8
Dymaxion Maps
10
The Platonic Solids
12
Vile Vortices
14
Russian Discoveries
16
Putting it all Together
18
Interesting Points
20
Hartmann and Curry Grids
22
Landscape Geometries
24
Great Circles on Earth
26
The Prime Meridian
28
Locating the Centre
30
Landscape Zodiacs
32
Measuring the Earth
34
Ancient Maps
36
Longitude Harmonics
38
Latitudinal Harmonics
40
Global Positioning
42
Octagons and Hexagons
44
Golden Section Sites
46
The Shifting Grid
48
Earth Music
50
Geometry on Other Planets
52
Natural Grids
54
Appendix I: Gazetteer of UVG Grid Points
56
Appendix II: Coordinates of Ancient Sites
58

INTRODUCTION
The idea that there is, or even might be, an Earth grid seems far fetched to many people. But people have always wanted to know where they are on the planet, and the ancient system of longitude and latitude is one such grid, and we all still use it today.
The use of geometry is particularly widespread in the buildings of the ancient world, and modern grid researchers speculate as to whether the ancients, when siting their great temples, were aware not only of the local archaeoastronomy, but also of the relationship of their location to other important sites.
Nowadays we have electricity grids, water networks, phone systems and the Internet, which criss-cross and suround us all. In the ancient world, the Chinese system of medicine described meridians of energy travelling through the body with acupuncture points at its nodes, and understood the Earth as having a similar network of energy lines.
The Earth today is seen as a living organism, and in the last thirty or so years, various books and articles have proposed Earth energy grids and the placement of ancient sites upon them. Indeed, the way they are placed around the planet suggest an informed and scientific project that was shared all around the globe in prehistory.
This book unravels the short history of grid research and takes another look at the distribution of sacred sites around the planet, revealing a remarkable network of surveying and megalithic engineering that supports the ancient idea of a geometric, or ‘Earth-measured’ worldview, which can now be seen as a new model for Gaia.
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The Earth
her structure, movement and natural energies
The Earth is 4.57 billion years old, and life appeared on it within one billion years of its formation. Oxygenic photosynthesis began about 2.7 billion years ago, forming the atmosphere we enjoy today. The Earth is skinned in several major layers ( opposite top ).
Earth’s outer surface is divided into massive tectonic plates that migrate across the surface due to continental drift. The planet once had just one large landmass and one great ocean. Today a mid-oceanic ridge runs around the entire planet, renewing the thin sea floor. In the mid- Atlantic, this ridge constantly erupts, pushing the Americas away from Europe and Africa ( below left ). It’s current pattern in some areas resembles that of a dodecahedron ( below right ).
The equatorial radius of the Earth is 3,963.19 miles, 13 miles greater than the polar radius of 3,949.90 miles; the equatorial bulge resulting from the Earth’s spin. Although the Earth changes over millions of years, it has remained basically the same during human civilisation.
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