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William Stukeley nació en 1687, estudió Medicina y en 1718 se convirtió en el primer secretario de la Sociedad de Anticuarios de Londres. Un año más tarde, visitó Stonehenge en Inglaterra y se enamoró de ese lugar.

Stukeley estaba fascinado con los druidas, pero además quería ser uno de ellos. En 1730 cambió de carrera y se lo nombró Vicario de todos los Santos en Stamford. Desde ahí, incluyó sus ideas de la filosofía druídica a sus sermones, e incluso comenzó a firmar sus cartas como «Chyndonax, Druida del Monte Haemus». Wikipedia  

✵ 7. noviembre 1687 – 3. marzo 1765
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“This mighty wall of four score miles in length is only exceeded by the Chinese wall, which makes a considerable figure upon the terrestrial globe, and may be discerned at the moon.”

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Private letter published in The Family Memoirs of the Rev. William Stukeley (1887) Vol. 3, p. 142. (1754).

“He told me, he was just in the same situation [i. e. in a garden], as when formerly, the notion of gravitation came into his mind. It was occasion'd by the fall of an apple, as he sat in a contemplative mood. Why should that apple always descend perpendicularly to the ground, thought he to him self. Why should it not go sideways or upwards, but constantly to the earths centre? Assuredly, the reason is, that the earth draws it. There must be a drawing power in matter.”

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A Hastings White (ed.) Memoirs of Sir Isaac Newton's Life (1936) pp. 19-20. (1752)
Relating a conversation with Sir Isaac Newton.

“Our predecessors, the Druids of Britain, tho' left in the extremest west to the improvement of their own thoughts, yet advanc'd their inquiries, under all disadvantages, to such heights, as should make our moderns asham'd, to wink in the sunshine of learning and religion.”

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Stonehenge: A Temple Restor'd to the British Druids, Preface. (1740).