Miscellaneous Works of Mr. John Greaves: Many of which are Now First Published : I. Pyramidographia : II. a Discourse of the Roman Foot : III. Tracts Upon Various Subjects : IV. a Description of the Grand Seignor's Seraglio : to which are Added, I. Reflections on the Pyramidographia, Written by an Anonymous Author : II. a Dissertation Upon the Sacred Cubit of the Jews : Translated from the Latin of Sir Isaac Newton, Not Yet Published : to the Whole is Prefix'd, an Historical and Critical Account of the Life and Writings of the Author, Volumen 1J. Hughs, 1737 |
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... stand . " But to my wonder , he being Aftronomi- " cal Profeffor , I do not find that he had any regard at all to the fame , but seems to be wholly taken up with one inquiry , " which was about the measure or bigness " of the whole and ...
... stand . " But to my wonder , he being Aftronomi- " cal Profeffor , I do not find that he had any regard at all to the fame , but seems to be wholly taken up with one inquiry , " which was about the measure or bigness " of the whole and ...
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... stand at fuch large and unequal differences of feveral miles from one another . I find as little fatisfaction in ( n ) Pliny , where he writes , Multa circa boc vanitas illorum hominum fuit , veftigiaq ; complurium inchoatarum extant ...
... stand at fuch large and unequal differences of feveral miles from one another . I find as little fatisfaction in ( n ) Pliny , where he writes , Multa circa boc vanitas illorum hominum fuit , veftigiaq ; complurium inchoatarum extant ...
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... stands east and weft ; the length of it is less than twen- ty feet , the breadth about feventeen , and the height lefs than fifteen . The walls are entire , and plafter'd over with lime ; the roof is covered with large fmooth stones ...
... stands east and weft ; the length of it is less than twen- ty feet , the breadth about feventeen , and the height lefs than fifteen . The walls are entire , and plafter'd over with lime ; the roof is covered with large fmooth stones ...
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... stands the monument of Cheops or Chemmis , of one piece of marble , hollow within , and uncovered at the top , and found- ing like a bell : which I mention not as any rarity either in nature or in art ( for I have obferved the like ...
... stands the monument of Cheops or Chemmis , of one piece of marble , hollow within , and uncovered at the top , and found- ing like a bell : which I mention not as any rarity either in nature or in art ( for I have obferved the like ...
Página 136
... f k the Second Gallery the first Anticloset [ [ o the Second Anticloset p the Chamber in which the Tomb Stands Hen Roberts Sculp 1 diterranean fea , and thofe for pearls in the The p.136 . if "trance into the Pyramid ...
... f k the Second Gallery the first Anticloset [ [ o the Second Anticloset p the Chamber in which the Tomb Stands Hen Roberts Sculp 1 diterranean fea , and thofe for pearls in the The p.136 . if "trance into the Pyramid ...
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Abulfeda Ægypt affes affigned Aftronomy alfo almoſt alſo amongst ancient anſwer Arabians Attick drachme aurei aureus bafis becauſe befides beſt coins confequently congius cubit defcribed defcription denarius denarius Confularis difcourfe dimenfions Diodorus diſcover doth drachmes Egypt Egyptians expreffed fame fecond feems feen feet fepulchres feven feveral fhall fhew fhould fide filver fince firft firſt fome fometimes fpeak fquare ftandard ftands ftone fuch fuppofe furely grains Greaves Greek hath Hefychius Herodotus himſelf hundred imbalmed Jerufalem Jofeph John Greaves Julius Pollux king lefs Manethos marble meaſures Mofes moft moſt muſt obferved occafion ounce paffage paffed Perfian Plin Pliny Plutarch pondus prefent proportion Pyramid quæ quinarius reafon refpect reft reigned Roman foot Roman pound Rome ſhall Shekel Strabo Suidas tetradrachme thefe themſelves theſe thofe thoſe thouſand tion uſed valuation Villalpandus weight writes δὲ ἐν καὶ μὲν τὰς τὸ τὸν
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Página 254 - Notwithstanding, lest we should offend them, go thou to the sea, and cast an hook, and take up the fish that first cometh up; and when thou hast opened his mouth, thou shalt find a piece of money : that take, and give unto them for me and th^e.
Página 27 - And it shall come to pass, when Pharaoh shall call you, and shall say, What is your occupation ? that ye shall say, Thy servants...
Página 110 - They fetcht massy stones from the /Ethiopians, and made with these the foundation of the three Pyramids, fastening them together with lead and iron. They built the gates of them forty cubits...
Página 116 - ... galleries. At the end of it, on the right hand, is the well mentioned by Pliny ; the which is circular, and not square, as the Arabian writers describe...
Página 61 - Pyramid, a chamber, in which there was a hollow stone : in it was a statue of stone like a man, and within it a man, upon whom was a breast-plate of gold set with jewels ; upon...
Página 119 - ... we at length come to another partition. The length of the gallery, from the well below to this partition above, is an hundred fifty and four feet : but if we meafure the pavement of the floor, it is...
Página 46 - And the city was broken up, and all the men of war fled by night by the way of the gate between two walls, which is by the king's garden: (now the Chaldees were against the city round about:) and the king went the way toward the plain.
Página 92 - The reft of the Sides were examined by a Line, for want of an even Level, and a convenient Diftance to place my Mtrumeots , both which the Area, on the former fide, afforded.
Página 118 - ... and meeting above in a kind of arch, or rather an angle. On the eaft fide of this room, in the middle of it...
Página 111 - He also put in the coloured Pyramid the commentaries of the Priests in chests of black marble, and with every Priest a book, in which were the wonders of his profession, and of his actions, and of his nature, and what was done in his time, and what is, and what shall be, from the beginning of time to the end of it.