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Conclusions...Stone circles, are we learning much?
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Nov 06, 2013, 20:50
thesweetcheat wrote:
Good to see scepticism over dowsing was rife even at a time when witches were still being routinely burned and half a century before Galileo was persecuted for his views on the earth/sun.


Dunno if it was rife , but at least it wasn't just accepted by somebody who knew what he was talking about .
Interstingly Agricola is often referred to positively by dowsers , simply because he mentions it . e.g. "In 1556 Georgius Agricola published his work 'De Re Metallica' which clearly shows dowsing activity in the woodcut therein. One dowser is shown cutting a branch from a tree, whilst two others are shown in the act of dowsing using forked twigs, whilst surrounded by miners digging. " from the British society of Dowsers website , but they never actually provide the damning quotes and there are plenty more .
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