Our Inheritance in the Great Pyramid: Including All the Most Important Discoveries Up To the Present Time (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Griffith, Ira Samuel

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1440039488 ISBN 13 : 9781440039485

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2009

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Présentation de l'éditeur :

WHEN the late worthy John Taylor, of Gower Street, London (originally of Bake-well, Derbyshire) published, first his larger work entitled " The Great Pyramid ; why Avas it built, and who built it ?" in 1859 ; and afterwards, in 1864, his smaller pamphlet which he called " The Battle of the Standards (of Linear Measure) : the ancient of four thousand years, against the modern of the last fifty years-the less perfect of the two,"-he opened up for archaeology a purer, nobler, more important pathway to light than that study had ever enjoyed before.
But Academic Archaeology did not accept it; and meanwhile some portions of the new pathway were so little removed from much of my oavu scientific professional occupations, that I felt it something like a public duty to examine into the foundation of Mr. Taylor's theory as rigidly and extensively as I could, though by home work only, at first; and my publication of 18G4 (i.e., the first edition of the present book) contained the findings so

Table of Contents

i introductory statement touching the great pyramid 3; ii geometrical proportions 12; iii standard of length employed in the great pyramid 27; iv figure op the earth and the sun-distance 40 v geographical indications in the great pyramid 55; PART II; HISTORY AND THE INTERIOR; vi structural isolation of the great pyramid amongst; all pyramids 73; vii the pyramid coffer 99; viii why of that size? 118; ix density and temperature 146; x confirmations by the new school 174; PART III; NATIONAL WEIGHTS AND MEASURES; xi british metrology, past and present 199; xii pyramid capacity measure 225; xiii pyramid weight measure 231; xiv linear and superficial measure 244; xv heat and pressure, angle, money, time 257; xvi the sacred cubit of the hebrews 281; xvii "time measures in the great pyramid " 304; xviii moses and the wisdom of the egyptians 328; xix mechanical data 348; xx sacred, and prophetic, time 374; PART V; I

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1440039488
• ISBN 13: 9781440039485
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 572