The Imaginary Metrological System of the Great Pyramid of Gizeh (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Whiteside, James A. P.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1440051992 ISBN 13 : 9781440051999

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Does an ancient pyramid hide the true measure of our world? This book traces a bold claim about a single, ancient coffer and its supposed link to British units of weight and capacity, challenging long-held ideas about metrology and measurement history.

In a clear, evidence-minded style, the author surveys old statutes, ancient volumes, and modern calculations to ask whether the Pyramid’s coffer really shaped the bushel, the quarter, or other standard measures. The argument weighs the coffer against centuries of British and American practice, with careful attention to units, volumes, and the evolution of standards.

- Understand how historical measures were defined and how they changed over time
- See how experts interpret the coffer’s capacity and its possible role in ancient and modern systems
- Learn about the testing ideas used today to verify standard measures, like precise filling and capillarity considerations
- Explore the debate around whether a single object could truly serve as a universal standard

Ideal for readers curious about the history of measurement, archaeology, and the Great Pyramid’s scientific mysteries.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Great Pyramid of Gizeh. If it were not a law of fanaticism that the faith of its subjects and victims is intense in proportion as its foundations are weak, and that its disciples multiply in proportion as its doctrines are defiant of common sense, it might reasonably have been expected that the wild conjectures in regard to this monument hazarded by John Taylor in 1859 would have fallen unnoticed from the press, and would long since have ceased to be remembered among men. It is a fact, nevertheless, that this strange fantasy has been adopted as the creed of a numerous and actively militant sect, who, not content with cherishing their favorite hallucination among themselves, have found in it the inciting motive of a crusade against the spirit of progress of the age ;and under the pretext that the imperfect system of weights and measures in common use among us is a system derived from the Pyramid, and divinely appointed, which it would be sacrilege to touch even for the removal of its defects, have attempted the quixotic task of turning back the wheels of a beneficent revolution which has, within the last half century, spread itself over the larger part of the Christian world. The essay embraced in the following pages is a reprint of a paper contributed, in the ordinary course of business, to the Proceedings of the American Metrological Society, in December, 1883, and published immediately thereafter in the SCHOOL OF MINES QUARTERLY of Columbia College. The object for which that Association was founded was not, as the devotees of the Pyramid faith have industriously represented, to secure the introduction of the Metric System of Weights and Measures into the United States.
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1440051992
• ISBN 13: 9781440051999
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 122
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible