Erling Haagensen
Biographic Data
| ID | 1098666 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Erling Haagensen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Erling |
| FAMILY NAME | Haagensen |
| SIGNATURE | HAAGENSEN E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Film Independent |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8140-049X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 2 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
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Medieval Round Churches and the Shape of the Earth
There is a unique cluster of four medieval round churches, linked by a simple geometry, on Bornholm Island in the Baltic Sea. Why so many and why so close together? Immediate simple answers are "Just by chance" and "For no reason." Why are the churches round? "Defense." This essay proposes another hypothesis for this unique situation: the churches are astronomical observatories, meant to solve a scientific problem (Is the Earth really spherical?)…
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Medieval Round Churches and the Shape of the Earth
There is a unique cluster of four medieval round churches, linked by a simple geometry, on Bornholm Island in the Baltic Sea. Why so many and why so close together? Immediate simple answers are "Just by chance" and "For no reason." Why are the churches round? "Defense." This essay proposes another hypothesis for this unique situation: the churches are astronomical observatories, meant to solve a scientific problem (Is the Earth really spherical?)…
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Archaeology (1 work) · Architecture (1 work) · Architecture (1 work) · Astronomy (1 work) · Baltic sea (1 work) · Earth (classical element (1 work) · Epistemology (1 work) · Geology (1 work) · Geology (1 work) · Geometry (1 work)