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
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Charles Piazzi Smyth (1819–1900), Astronomer Royal for Scotland, was keenly interested in 'pyramidology': he was convinced that the Great Pyramid of Giza was built under divine guidance and contained scientific information. This 1864 work sets out his argument, based on the measurements he had made of the Pyramid.
Charles Piazzi Smyth (1819-1900) was a Victorian antiquarian-astronomer. He was born in Naples, Italy, to Captain (later Admiral) William Henry Smyth and his wife Annarella. He was called Piazzi after his godfather, the Italian astronomer Giuseppe Piazzi, whose acquaintance his father had made at Palermo when serving in the Mediterranean. In 1846 he was appointed Astronomer Royal for Scotland, based at the Calton Hill Observatory in Edinburgh, and professor of astronomy in the University of Edinburgh. Later, he wrote a popular account of a scientific voyage in "Teneriffe, an astronomers Experiment." It was the first book ever illustrated by stereoscopic photographs ('photo-stereographs') and included 20 stereoviews of Teneriffe taken by the author using the wet collodion process. A stereoscope could be purchased which allowed the pictures to be viewed in 3-D without removing them from the book. In 1871 and 1872 Smyth investigated the spectra of the aurora, and zodiacal light. Smyth went on an expedition to Egypt to accurately measure every surface, dimension, and aspect of the Great Pyramid and subsequently published his book "Our Inheritance in the Great Pyramid" in 1864. He died in 1900 and was buried at St. John's Church in the village of Sharow near Ripon. A small stone pyramid-shaped monument, topped by a Christian cross, marks his grave site.
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