It was John Taylor who first proposed the idea that the number pi might have been intentionally incorporated into the design of the Great Pyramid of Khufu at Giza. He discovered that if one divides the perimeter of the Pyramid by its height, one obtains a close approximation to 2pi. He compared this to the fact that if one divides the circumference of a circle by its radius, one obtains 2pi. He suggested that perhaps the Great Pyramid was intended to be a representation of the spherical Earth, the height corresponding to the radius joining the center of the Earth to the North Pole and the perimeter corresponding to the Earth's circumference at the Equator. Taylor's ideas were presented in his book The Great Pyramid: Why Was It Built? And Who Built It?, published in 1859. These ideas were further promulgated and elaborated by Charles Piazzi Smyth - Professor of Astronomy at Edinburgh University and Astronomer Royal of Scotland - in his book Inheritance in the Great Pyramid, published in 1864. In more recent times, books such as Secrets of the Great Pyramid by Peter Tompkins discuss the relationship between pi and the Great Pyramid and also another relationship involving the number phi (the famous Golden Mean) at considerable length, almost seeming to take it for granted that those relationships are really intentional.

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John Taylor (1781-1864)
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John Taylor (1781-1864) was a publisher, essayist, and writer born in East Retford, Nottinghamshire, the son of James Taylor and Sarah Drury. Although in pyramidical circles, he may be remembered for his contributions to Pyramidology and his use of that subject in the fight against adopting the metric system of measurements, his real fame is as the publisher of both Keats and John Clare.

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1 Life
2 Publications
3 See also
4 References



[edit] Life
John Taylor's father was a printer and bookseller. He attended school first at Lincoln Grammar School and then he went to the local grammar school in Retford. John Taylor originally apprenticed to his father but eventually he moved to London and worked for James Lackington in 1803. Taylor left after a short while because of his insufficient salary.

He formed a partnership with J A Hessey as Taylor and Hessey at 93 Fleet Street. In 1819, through his cousin Edward Drury, a bookseller in Stamford, he was introduced to John Clare, the poet of Helpston in Northamptonshire. Some moderns have criticised him for correcting and 'polishing' some of Clare's rustic grammar and spelling for publication, but under the expectations of the era, this was probably unavoidable.

He was also Keats's publisher, and published works by Lamb, Coleridge and Hazlett.

He wrote and published his own work, Junius Identified, which identified Junius , the writer of Letters of Junius (probably correctly) as Sir Philip Francis. This ran to two editions.

In 1821 John Taylor became involved in publishing Blackwood Magazine.

As a significant publisher of the day, he entertained widely.

In later years he became Bookseller and Publisher to the then new London University and moved to Upper Gower Street. As such he developed a line in what was then the new and developing field of standard academic text books.

John Taylor was the author of the 1859 book "The Great Pyramid", in which he argued that the numbers Pi and Phi may have been deliberately incorporated into the design of the Great Pyramid of Khufu at Giza, whose perimeter is close to 2Pi times its height. His theories in Pyramidology were then expanded by Charles Piazzi Smyth.





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