Mark Heaton Wrote:
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> Hi Hans,
>
> It was Piazzi Smyth according to a review by James
> Bonwick on page 68 of his book, but Piazzi Smyth
> was quite skilful in attributing theories to
> others such as John Taylor and Isaac Newton.
>
> In this case he drew credence from Sir John
> Herschel who merely answered a technical question
> without promoting the idea that the age of the
> pyramid may correspond to the date when the lower
> declination of Alpha Draconis coincided with the
> angle of the descending passage of the Great
> Pyramid which Herschel calculated as 2160 BC in
> reply to an enquiry from Colonel Howard Vyse..
>
> Smyth's fourth edition of 'Our Inheritance in the
> Great Pyramid' was re-published in 1990 as 'The
> Great Pyramid' and sub-titled Its secrets and
> mysteries revealed. See page 367 and the following
> pages
>
> By 1880 many Egyptologists thought the Great
> Pyramid was much older than Piazzi Smyth's date of
> around 2170 BC.
>
> Smyth's astronomical theory was more complex than
> this and linked in The Pleiades.
>
> Mark

Thanks!