Don Barone Wrote:
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> Firstly allow me to
> say I did not go looking for feet and inches and
> miles as you well know for I have studied the
> geometry for over 10 years and never once even
> considered using these measurements.
OK: I take this point on board.
> I stumbled
> onto it when I read that Perring assigned a
> distance of precisely 707.10 feet for the base of
> G2 - one half the square root of 2 times 1000.
The reason why Perring recorded his finding using those figures was because he was measuring that base using the system that he'd grown up with - namely, Imperial measure - rather than the measurement system of the AE themselves. Dimensions noted in the Imperial system would have carried more immediate significance to the English researchers and public.
> Regardless on whether this measurement is correct
> or not I decided to look for other possible
> examples of English measures and they started
> popping up all over the place.
Identifying the ancient system of measure in use at an archaeological site or sites is - like so many things connected with archaeology - a difficult and complex task that involves collecting and comparing large amounts of data.
Fortunately, information about the AE measurement system of cubits, khets, etc., was recorded in ancient texts and documents. There is no evidence that any other system was in operation in AE.
> So here is your (and other's) dilemma. It would
> appear that the measurements are there
Here's the problem, Don: and it's yours, not mine. Cherry-picking measurements that happen to suit a particular theory are not the best way of approaching the question.
For a start, can you define precisely what you mean by “the Imperial system of measure”? What were its origins, and how did it develop?
This, for example, is an examination of the problems facing researchers trying to ascertain what metrological system(s) and ratios might have been in use at some sites in mediaeval Ireland.
This paper describes some of the problems associated with an investigation of
the Anglo-Saxon foot.
This discusses some of the problems associated with finding and determining
local units of measurement, albeit on a much smaller scale.
This paper describes attempts in the 18th century to find
the unit of measure used in Classical buildings in Rome. (The general conclusion was that you could find any foot in any building).
It’s all much more difficult than a preliminary comparison of certain AE measures with certain modern English measures might lead one to think.
> but you say
> that The Ancient Egyptians did not and could not
> know these measurements. So if you follow the
> logic then it leads to only one conclusion.
Yes. That your theory is erroneous ...
There
> can be little doubt that The Ancient Egyptians
> supplied the manpower to build the pyramids but it
> is becoming increasingly possible that they did
> not design them.
They designed them, and built them ...
> As much as I hate to do this, Scott Creighton has
> oft times used a quote where he alleges that
> Imhotep used the plans handed down from "heaven'
> to build the various pyramids and complexes. Maybe
> there is more to this small passage than meets the
> eye.
Scott Creighton was referring to a tradition about a codex that had supposedly come down from the sky. There's a comparable legend from Sumer, about Gudea of Lagash, who supposedly had a dream in which the goddess of science gave him a plan for a new temple ... which was simply a poetic way of saying that the royal architects had designed it.
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