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The First Circlet: The Twining Of The Three - Prologue. Prologue
Crop Circles Through History
1678
There appears a circle in a field of corn of one of the many farmers serviceing the lands about Hardford-shire, England. A wood cutting is made and posted telling of the 'reason' behind the incident:
The farmer of the field in question has a dispute with his hired mower declaring that the poor field hand dersires too much for his wage. The farmer declares that he would rather the Devil himself mow his fields than to pay the mower his negotiated wage.
The Farmer is awakened that night to strange lights in his field that 'looked like his fields were aflame'. He checked the field the next morning to find a perfect oval cut into his field of corn.
Many of the townsfolk shunned the field as cursed by the Devil.
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From Nature, volume 22, pp 290-291, 29 July 1880 - Authored by John Rand Capron
"The storms about this part of Surrey have been lately local and violent, and the effects produced in some instances curious. Visiting a neighbour's farm on Wednesday evening (21st), we found a field of standing wheat considerably knocked about, not as an entirety, but in patches forming, as viewed from a distance, circular spots.
Examined more closely, these all presented much the same character, viz., a few standing stalks as a centre, some prostrate stalks with their heads arranged pretty evenly in a direction forming a circle round the centre, and outside these a circular wall of stalks which had not suffered.
I send a sketch made on the spot, giving an idea of the most perfect of these patches. The soil is a sandy loam upon the greensand, and the crop is vigorous, with strong stems, and I could not trace locally any circumstances accounting for the peculiar forms of the patches in the field, nor indicating whether it was wind or rain, or both combined, which had caused them, beyond the general evidence everywhere of heavy rainfall. They were to me suggestive of some cyclonic wind action, and may perhaps have been noticed elsewhere by some of your readers." -- Sketch never published by Nature.
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Easy as pi: Astrophysicist solves riddle of Britain's most complex crop circle
By DANIEL BATES
UPDATED: 18:50 EST, 17 June 2008
It is - by any calculation - a creation stunning in its ingenuity.
Carved out in a barley field, this 150ft wide pattern is said to be a pictorial representation of the first ten digits of Pi, one of the most fundamental symbols in mathematics.
Believers in extra-terrestrials could argue it was made by mathematically-minded aliens on a field trip to Earth.
Sceptics will think it the work of humans with a fondness for figures and a penchant for puzzles.
But whatever its origins, the experts say it is the most complex crop circle ever seen in Britain.
The pattern appeared earlier this month near Barbury Castle, an Iron Age hill fort above the village of Wroughton in Wiltshire.
Initially, crop circle enthusiasts were stumped as to its meaning and even a number of experts said it was 'mind-boggling'.
Then retired astrophysicist Mike Reed saw a photograph of it and made the mathematical link.
He said the crop pattern 'clearly shows' the first ten digits of pi, which - as many will remember from their schooldays - is used to calculate the area of a circle using the formula Pi r squared.
Mr Reed said: 'I noticed a photo of the Barbury Castle pattern. It shows a coded image representing the first ten digits of Pi - the ratio of the circumference of a circle to the diameter.
'The tenth digit has even been correctly rounded up.
'The little dot near the centre is the decimal point. The code is based on ten angular segments, with the radial jumps being the indicator of each segment.'
After working out the sequence, Mr Reed produced a diagram. The image is an example of what is known as a fractal, or geometric pattern.
Fractals have been a staple of crop circle designs for many years, the most well known being the Mandelbrot Set or the Julia Set, which appeared 12 years ago in Avebury Trusloe, Wiltshire.
Lucy Pringle, a renowned researcher of crop formations, has the largest database in the world on the phenomenon.
She said yesterday: 'This is an astounding development - it is a seminal event.'
Although numerous-individuals have come forward over the years admitting they had been making crop circles, many people still believe the rings are linked with the paranormal or civilizations in far-flung galaxies.
As yet, no one has claimed responsibility for the Barbury Castle circle.
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