Howard Crowhurst and the Manio Conception Triangle | Ancient Mathematics | N J Wildberger

[@inversehyperbolictangent3955]

Super fascinating. What a discovery! I would love to hear more about this. The fact that it's so ancient -- basically prehistoric, unless you consider these artifacts as representing a kind of recorded history -- just blows my mind. If Prof. Crowhurst and yourself are interested in popularizing this research a bit more, perhaps you could do a skype/hangouts/whatever interview with him. Or if he has any lectures or anything online, perhaps include a link in the video's description? Just some brainstorming ideas if you're interested. Cheers! 😊

[@Galileosays]

Wow, 3+4+5=12 months where 9 months denoting the period of pregnancy. Never thought of it, but it makes sense. Planning in agriculture, but also birth planning is essential to survive in those early times of manhood. The best time to give birth would be March, because then the baby would get the fruits from springtime. The recumbent stone probably indicates birth, while the two () stones, which are 3 months later indicate conception. It could be that at the moment the shadow of the giant stone falls into the () stones it is a moment to celebrate successful pregnancy, and to toast for a successful birth, since winter time makes living hard. Liked that Howard explained that at winter solstice which is the French word for Christmas "Noel" comes from novo hellias (the new sun). Great video. Thank you both for making this video and the successive one.

[@hychap]

If you ever come to Ireland.. you can stay at my house because you're awesome..

[@njwildberger]

Thanks! I may take you up on that sometime... Ireland is a major destination for neolithic archeo-astronomical studies.

[@adjoaadjavon6766]

Very interesting and insightful ❤

[@landspide]

Fascinating, dating sites with acheoastronomy! Has his book been translated to English?

[@milenacontreras8690]

WONDERFULL! THANK YOU !

[@ChrisDjangoConcerts]

Dear Howard Crowhurst and Professor Wildberger, Thank for posting this video! Howard says that the people choose the location or the latitude such that the 3-4-5 triangle formed by the shadow of the Manio Giant at M at Solstace and Equinox 7000 years ago has it sides PD and DM at cardinal directions. At the same time Howard says that this site, latitude, is perfect to know cardinal directions by the measurements of the 3-4-5 triangle using ropes with knots. I'm confused here. How could they choose a precise latitude if they didn't know cardinal directions precisely? My point is that if they were so sophisticated that they could choose a latitude so accurately, they would probably have no problem establishing cardinal directions? Am I missing something? Christiaan

[@HowardCrowhurst]

Chris Django, once the latitude has been chosen by "specialists", then anybody with very small knowledge can determine cardinal directions, for example, the people who did the hard work of building all these sites.

[@samisiddiqi5411]

You can just go north enough without knowing how many degrees north you are. Try it. Walk north or south.

[@christopherellis2663]

"orient(at)ed" It is the East, and Juliet is the Sun! sine Amplitude = sine declination x secant latitude. In this case, either 3/5 or 4/5. Odd fact: Megalithic Yard is almost 12e^1 inches

[@darrenzal3074]

Interesting!

[@naimulhaq9626]

More interesting would have been Wildberger's successful deciphering of Sumerian tablet 322 listing many Pythagorian triplets, I am looking forward to.

[@sharonjuniorchess]

Norman & Daniel have produced a series of 8 videos which explain this story: kzbin.info/www/bejne/fnO6kHV3fMZlj80

[@landspide]

Just got back from Peru/Bolivia, it is full of stones like this...

[@albertkundrat4624]

What is Knowledge anyway? It is both mystical or metaphysical as well as physical or tangibly practical like all those geometric Tangent lines! but the word "Tangent" comes from the Latin, and in Latin it is a conjugated verb "TANGENT!" meaning "They Touch or They Contact". Ancient knowledge in its pre-corrupted form was more Balanced than modern knowledge. Johannes Kepler and Isaac Newton were the last to have "TANGENT!" knowledge: that the mystical and the practical really TOUCH or get in Contact! Albert Einstein, although in his work couldn't include the mystical, nevertheless had it paralleled by simple Curiosity and childlike wonder and a kind of religious devotion e.g. "God doesn't play dice!". Even the late CARL SAGAN through his magnificent series COSMOS and His novel First CONTACT (TANGENT!" about the meeting, confronting, or communicating with etraterrestrial intelligence, evinced the same wonder at the mystical, even though literally only as science. Then there that difficult and contraversial work HOAGLAND's THE MONUMENTS OF MARS, concerning CYDONIA: full of meaningful criss-crossing TANGENTS and Angles, and STONES or Rock formations claiming to be carved Heads.....