Megalithomania: AA according to John Michell


Chronology of AA (Astro-Archeology) following John Michell, Secrets of the Stones, 1976/1989.

Note:

1723/B	Rev. Wm. Stukeley sketch of Stanton Drew
1740/B	Stukeley notes Stonehenge points to mid-summer sunrise
1740/B	John Wood, mystical architect of Bath,
		Description of Stanton Drew and Stonehenge
1747/B	John Wood, Choir Gaure Vulgarly Called Stonehenge
		with accurate plans
1770/B	Dr. John Smith notes point to mid-summer sunrise in
		Choir Gawr, the Grand Orrery of the Druids
1778/B	Wm. Chapple identifies an astronomical observatory in
		A Very Remarkable Cromlech
1796/B	Wansey identifies an ideal horizon observatory at 3 miles in
		Stonehenge
1829/B	Godfrey Higgins dates Stonehenge at 4000 BC in
		The Celtic Druids
1846/B	Rev. E. Duke identifies an orrery in
		Druidical Temples of Wiltshire
1864/E	Charles Piazzi Smyth,
		Our Inheritance in the Great Pyramid
1867/B	Max Müller: Holed stones in Cornwall sight fall equinox
1880/B	Sir. Wm. M. Flinders Petrie,
		Stonehenge: plans, description, and theories
1881/E	Flinders Petrie begins to dig and survey Egypt
1883/E	Richard Proctor: Cheops' pyramid is an observatory
1885	Prof. Nissen, astron. allignment of temples
1890/G	Sir Norman Lockyer in Greece in March, allignments of temples
1890/E	Sir Norman Lockyer in Egypt in November, allignments of temples
		dates Karnak (mid-summer sunset) at 3700 BC
1892/G	F. C. Penrose in Greece, paper on
		temple allignments in Greece, heliacal risings
1893/B	Magnus Spence: aston. allignments in Stenness, Scotland
1894	Lockyer, The Dawn of Astronomy
		(and, the dawn of modern astro-archeology)
1900/B	Moses Cotsworth: Silbury Hill is a gnomon
1900/E	Moses Cotsworth: Cheops' pyramid is a gnomon
1901/B	Lockyer and Penrose date Stonehenge at 1820 +- 200 BC 
1922/B	Alfred Watkins, Early British Trackways
1963/B	Gerald Hawkins, solar and lunar lines at Stonehenge
1965/B	Gerald Hawkins, Stonehenge Decoded
1967/B	Alexander Thom, Megalithic Sites in Britain
		(and, the dawn of modern geometro-archeology)

Ralph H. Abraham, 22 April 1996.