Dave Lightbody Wrote:
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> "And that would all be absolutely fine: were it
> not for the fact that the evidence, as described
> in your book, doesn't reveal anything of the sort
> ..."
>
> Yes Well Petrie and all of the top Egyptologists
> and myself thought/think otherwise. Facts are
> facts. The evidence is there in all its 1760
> around by 280 cubit high glory.
>
> Professor Miroslav Verner wrote, "We can conclude
> that although the ancient Egyptians could not
> precisely define the value of pi;, in practice
> they used it".
From the evidence of the Rhind MP, it's clear that the AE were able to perform calculations involving the area of a circle and its diameter; the ratio used is 256/81. Nothing is said about the circumference.
Professor W.M.Flinders Petrie,
> author of Pyramids and Temples of Gizeh, who was
> the first accurate surveyor of Giza and the
> excavator and surveyor of the Pyramid of Meidum,
Why do you so frequently include academics' titles and descriptions when you refer to them? Could the reason for this be that you want to stress that people such as Petrie and Edwards were authorities in the field of Egyptology? Is this a way of suggesting that their positions as leaders in this area should of itself prevent any questioning or criticism?
Most people reading this thread will know perfectly well who Petrie was: they don't need to be reminded that he was a professor.
> concluded: "but these relations of areas and of
> circular ratio are so systematic that we should
> grant that they were in the builders design".
> Earlier in the chapter he wrote more specifically,
> that: “We conclude therefore that the
> approximation of 7 to 22 as the ratio of diameter
> to circumference was recognised”.
>
> Mainstream, orthodox, Egyptological fact.
What facts? What you're referring to, in the passages just quoted, are
inferences.
> Not only fact, it's what the Old Kingdom Egyptians
> actually did, purposely, for clear and now well
> understood symbolic reasons.
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