Records in Stone
Subtitle: Papers in Memory of Alexander Thom
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: July 29, 1988
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 544
ISBN-13: 9780521333818
Subjects: History of science; Thom, A; Prehistoric Archaeology; Science/Mathematics; United Kingdom, Great Britain; Archaeoastronomy; Technology / General; Leys; (Alexander); Megalithic monuments
First sentence: When my father was born, Queen Victoria was on the throne; the law of the land required a mechanically propelled vehicle to have a man walking in front with a red flag; powered flight was still a dream; the Yukon Trail was known to only a few men; and later feats such as the moon walk and sending probes to visit Halley's comet were mere fantasy.