Jon_B Wrote:
> The next person to take up the idea is something
> of a surprise as it was Petrie. Writing in the
> snappily titled "Preliminary Notice of some Facts
> (heretofore unperceived) which will be shown to
> aggegrate into certain Cosmic and Metric Systems
> in the Great Pyramid when taken in connection with
> other facts to be subsequently considered." 1874.

Somehow I doubt that this will be featured in Oprah's Book Club.

> Petrie followed Smyth's idea to propose a system
> of 1000° "Pyramid Degrees". He writes: "Following
> this clue given by Professor Smyth, we find that
> in the angle of arris, there is a similar instance
> (though not quite so simple) of 9 courses for
> every 5° which would imply 209.9862, or evenly 210
> courses... ... Having thus seen the degrees
> represented by the courses, we may also consider
> the number of degrees and their equivalents in
> measure..." He goes on to highlight examples of
> this "connection" between Pyramid degrees and
> layer numbers.
>
> Less than ten years later Petrie had visited Giza
> and done his famous survey. He very soon found
> that Smyth had made a mistake and discovered in
> his famous phrase "the ugly little fact which
> killed the beautiful theory". The "Pyramid inch"
> was disproved and he makes no more mention of
> "Pyramid degrees".

That's why it vanished--he demonstrated that it did not work.