Should you wish to build the one described in the book, here's how. As the position of the sun, moon and planets show us where the ecliptic is, an Uriel's Machine, with its numerous portals and windows, it is proposed, could act as an early warning system allowing the position of comets and asteroids to be noted and compared against the position of the ecliptic. An asteroid or comet approaching earth is more likely to hit us, if it is in the plane of the ecliptic. In Knight and Lomas's interpretation of the Book of Enoch, Uriel warns Enoch about the impending flood, giving him instructions for building a form of solar observatory for the purpose of preserving advanced knowledge into a time of global disaster by teaching him the movement of the Sun against the horizon over a period of time, which Enoch then records in detail in the Book of the Courses of the Heavenly Luminaries.Īccording to Christopher Knight and Robert Lomas, Uriel's machine is a 'horizon declinometer'. It has to be remembered that the difference between a major breakthrough and nothing at all can be just the angle of view rather than anything else.Uriel's Machine: The Prehistoric Technology That Survived the Flood is a best selling book published in 1999 by Christopher Knight and Robert Lomas.The book's name is derived from a character of the same name in the Book of Enoch. So few scholars now have a chance to view the bigger picture - to seek out patterns that might unexpectedly exist when apparently unrelated data is brought together. But the loss, arguably, is the synthesis of information generated by the many gentleman scholars that once existed, before becoming extinct somewhere around hte late nineteenth century.
The gains from modern science are beyond counting.
Today the sheer enormity of available information has led to highly defined specialisms, and academics are expected to keep to their field - despite the truism that science has no experts. Gone are the days when one man, such as the seventeeth-century Robert Hooke, could be a groundbreaking inventor, microscopist, physicist, surveyor, astronomer, biologist and even artist.
“Modern scientific culture has evolved from its roots in the ancient world and has become a complex web of many highly specialized disciplines.
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