I shall recheck my notes. There was an excellent BBC program done of
Stonehenge about 20 years ago. I have it on tape at school and I'll send the
details. I'm sure it's still available. Stonehenge not only can be used to
predict seasons and Midsummer's day (isn't that the 21st?), but eclipses as
well. It is dated 17th century b.C., which is amazing. Who did it? What
mathematics did they use? How could they create something so amazingly
accurate? On churches, I always thought that many churches were oriented
East/West as a matter of tradition. So many of them, especially after the
transept was added to the plan, creating a cruciform ground plan, were oriented
east/west, creating the north, south, and west facades, the latter always being
the main entrance. The apse, later chorus, was always to the east. A good
source for the this is Sir Bannister Fletcher's _History of Architecture..._,
now in it's 18th edition. He provides beautiful line drawings and ground
plans. yrs, tom ault
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