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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Página viii
... mentioned in my former Letters " to be buried in the Seraglio , if the * " were handfomely followed by an am- " baffador . " << Mr. Greaves had a defign to have gone to Mount Athos , which is about four days jour- ney by fea from ...
... mentioned in my former Letters " to be buried in the Seraglio , if the * " were handfomely followed by an am- " baffador . " << Mr. Greaves had a defign to have gone to Mount Athos , which is about four days jour- ney by fea from ...
Página xvi
... mention'd are only by the bye and " accidental , which fhews how useful theo- " ries may be for the future to fuch as fhall " make obfervations ; nay , tho ' they should " not be true , for that it will hint many in- " quiries to be ...
... mention'd are only by the bye and " accidental , which fhews how useful theo- " ries may be for the future to fuch as fhall " make obfervations ; nay , tho ' they should " not be true , for that it will hint many in- " quiries to be ...
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... mention'd , and especially concerning the perpendicular height in proportion to the bafe , he was de- firous to fee how these accounts would feve- rally come out upon a true mathematical calculation , fuppofing the bafe to be a per ...
... mention'd , and especially concerning the perpendicular height in proportion to the bafe , he was de- firous to fee how these accounts would feve- rally come out upon a true mathematical calculation , fuppofing the bafe to be a per ...
Página xxiv
... , which he communicated to the French academy . All these authors agreeing in " the fame meafure , one cannot account " for Greaves's dimenfions , except from the ❝reafon " reafon mentioned above , of the fides be- " xxiv The LIFE of.
... , which he communicated to the French academy . All these authors agreeing in " the fame meafure , one cannot account " for Greaves's dimenfions , except from the ❝reafon " reafon mentioned above , of the fides be- " xxiv The LIFE of.
Página xxv
... mentioned above , of the fides be- " ing fomething different in length . Now « fuppofing the bafe of the Pyramid to be a cr parallelogram , and that Greaves measured " the shortest fide , and the other authors the longeft ; I fay , upon ...
... mentioned above , of the fides be- " ing fomething different in length . Now « fuppofing the bafe of the Pyramid to be a cr parallelogram , and that Greaves measured " the shortest fide , and the other authors the longeft ; I fay , upon ...
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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.