2. “ RINGS
”
IN THE BRANCHES OF
SAWED TREES SHOW
THE NUMBER OF YEARS
AND, ACCORDING TO THEIR
THICKNESS,
THE YEARS WHICH WERE
MORE OR LESS
DRY.
Leonardo da Vinci
3. “ ... and if one forces a stone or similar object into a
tree, it becomes hidden, since the new growth
surrounds it, as was the case with the wild olive tree
”
which stood in the market place at Megara.
Theophrastus
(371 - 287 BC)
Photograph: Anshul Nigham
4. Henri-Louis Duhamel du Monceau Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
1700 - 1782 1707 - 1788
24. “ We do not know how old these ruins are, but I should be
glad to have an opinion from you as to whether it might
be possible to connect up with your modern and dated
trees specimens [with wood specimens] from these
”
[prehistoric] ruins by correlating the curves of growth…
Clark Wissler to A.E. Douglass
1909
39. “ For the three of us, the experience was unforge able. To be
present at the instance of the celebrated breakthrough in
science that set the chronological house in order for the
Southwestern United States was reward enough. But beyond
”
that, was the privilege to work for a time at the side of
Douglass, the scholar, the astronomer turned archaeologist.
Emil Haury
1962