Hans Wrote:
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> Don Barone Wrote:
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> The first suggestion that the builders of the
> Great Pyramid of Giza used units of measure
> related to modern measures is attributed to Oxford
> astronomy professor John Greaves (1602–1652), who
> journeyed to Egypt in 1638 to make measurements of
> the pyramid. His findings were published in his
> Pyramidographia and under his name in an anonymous
> tract.[1] More than a century later, Greaves'
> measurements and additional measurements made by
> French engineers during Napoleon's expedition in
> Egypt, were studied by John Taylor (1781–1864).
> Taylor claimed that the measurements indicated
> that the ancients had used a unit of measure about
> 1/1000 greater than a modern British inch.[2] This
> was the origin of the "pyramid inch". Taylor
> regarded the "pyramid inch" to be 1/25 of the
> "sacred cubit" whose existence had earlier been
> postulated by Isaac Newton.[3] The principal
> argument was that the total length of the four
> sides of the pyramid would be 36524 (100 times the
> number of days in a year) if measured in pyramid
> inches. Taylor and his followers, who included the
> Astronomer Royal of Scotland Charles Piazzi Smyth
> (1819–1900),[4] also found numerous apparent
> coincidences between the measurements of the
> pyramids and the geometry of the earth and the
> solar system. They concluded that the British
> system of measures was derived from a far more
> ancient, if not divine, system. During the 19th
> and early 20th centuries, this theory played a
> significant role in the debates over whether
> Britain and the United States should adopt the
> metric system.[5]
>
> The theory of Taylor and Smyth gained many eminent
> supporters and detractors during the following
> decades, but by the end of the 19th century it had
> lost most of its mainstream scientific support.
> The greatest blow to the theory was dealt by the
> great Egyptogist Flinders Petrie (1853–1942),
> whose father was a believer. When Petrie went to
> Egypt in 1880 to perform new measurements, he
> found that the pyramid was several feet smaller
> than previously believed, including the missing
> capstone. This so undermined the theory that
> Petrie rejected it, writing "there is no authentic
> example, that will bear examination, of the use or
> existence of any such measure as a ‘Pyramid inch,’
> or of a cubit of 25.025 British inches."[6]
>
> The value of 1.00106 British inches is calculated
> as 1/500,000,000 of the Earth's polar diameter.
> The pyramid inch now appears to have no
> significant scientific support. No direct evidence
> for it has ever been found, so pyramidologists
> argue from an increasing list of alleged numerical
> coincidences.
>
>
>

I wrote that ?

Don Barone


"There is nothing as impenetrable as a closed mind"
and ..." if everything is a coincidence what is the point of studying or measuring or analyzing anything ?" db