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Choir gaur; the grand orrery of the ancient Druids commonly called Stonehenge, on Salisbury Plain, astronomically explained, and mathematically proved to be a temple erected in the earliest ages, for observing the motions of the heavenly bodies. Illustrated with three copper plates

by John Smith

  • First published:
  • 18th century
  • Language: English
  • Content type: Primary source

vi, 73 pages, 3 folded leaves of plates : (4to)

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Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Megaliths, stone circles, and archaeoastronomy.

  • Controlled discovery queries from internet-archive and wellcome matched “Stonehenge”. Retained metadata contains “Stonehenge” in the title, “Stonehenge” in the subject metadata, and “Stonehenge” in the edition title.

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1771-01-01T00:00:00ZSalisbury [England] : Printed for the author, and sold by E. Easton ; London : Sold also by R. Horsfield ... and J. White ...EnglishPublic digitized item

Wellcome Collection bibliographic record

vi, 73 pages, 3 folded leaves of plates : illustrations, plans ; (4to)

1771Printed for the author, and sold by E. Easton ;EnglishPublic digitized item

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  • Contributing institution: Wellcome Library
  • Digitization sponsor: Wellcome Library
  • Internet Archive institutional collection: europeanlibraries; medicalheritagelibrary; wellcomelibrary
  • Scanner: scribe2.euston.archive.org
  • Scanner: scribe3.euston.archive.org
  • Source-reported rights: <a href="http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/" rel="ugc nofollow">This work is available under the Creative Commons, Public Domain Mark</a>
  • Source-reported rights: This work is available under the Creative Commons, Public Domain Mark
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internet-archive:b30409950_0002
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