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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... respect to the parts of the " earth ; and if fo , how much , and which CC way , which must vary both the meridi- " an lines of places , and alfo their particu- " lar latitudes ? " that it had been very defira- ble , if from fome ...
... respect to the parts of the " earth ; and if fo , how much , and which CC way , which must vary both the meridi- " an lines of places , and alfo their particu- " lar latitudes ? " that it had been very defira- ble , if from fome ...
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... respect , or , what amounts to the fame , in the poles of the earth , or in the meri- dians o In the Mifcellaneous Obfervations upon Authors ancient and modern , Vol . I. ( 0 ) there are inferted fome Obfervations on the Di- menfions of ...
... respect , or , what amounts to the fame , in the poles of the earth , or in the meri- dians o In the Mifcellaneous Obfervations upon Authors ancient and modern , Vol . I. ( 0 ) there are inferted fome Obfervations on the Di- menfions of ...
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... respect of the art and workmanship , but far inferior to it in respect of magni- tude . The third Pyramid was erected by ( p ) My- cerinus , fome call him Mycherinus , as it is ( * ) Herodot . lib . 2. Τελετήσαν ἢ τέτε , εκλέξα και ...
... respect of the art and workmanship , but far inferior to it in respect of magni- tude . The third Pyramid was erected by ( p ) My- cerinus , fome call him Mycherinus , as it is ( * ) Herodot . lib . 2. Τελετήσαν ἢ τέτε , εκλέξα και ...
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... respect of thofe figns , is the cause of the production of natural things , and its departure the cause of their corruption , it feems very fitly , that by a Pyramid , Nature , the parent of all things , may be expressed . Alfo the fame ...
... respect of thofe figns , is the cause of the production of natural things , and its departure the cause of their corruption , it feems very fitly , that by a Pyramid , Nature , the parent of all things , may be expressed . Alfo the fame ...
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... respect of art or use , unto the former . And thus have I finished my description of all the inner parts of this Pyramid ; in which I could neither borrow light to con- duct me from the ancients , nor receive any manuduction from the ...
... respect of art or use , unto the former . And thus have I finished my description of all the inner parts of this Pyramid ; in which I could neither borrow light to con- duct me from the ancients , nor receive any manuduction from the ...
Términos y frases comunes
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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.