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German[de]
Stonehenge könnte unter anderem dazu benutzt worden sein, die Sommer- und Winter sonnenwende und die Frühlings- und Herbst tagundnachtgleiche , und damit die wichtigen jahreszeitlichen Wendepunkte vorauszusagen.
English[en]
A huge debate was triggered by the 1963 publication of Stonehenge Decoded, by British born astronomer Gerald Hawkins , who claimed to see a large number of astronomical alignments, both lunar and solar, at the site and argued that Stonehenge could have been used to predict eclipse s. Hawkins' book received wide publicity, partly because he used a computer in his calculations, then a rarity.