Around the World Or Travels in Polynesia China India Arabia Egypt Syria
Around the World Or Travels in Polynesia China India Arabia Egypt Syria
J M James Martin Peebles
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Dropping all preconceived theories, this Edinburgh pro- fessor, after noting the sloping key-line stones in the passage, the mystic number five, and the seven overlappings of the grim walls, began his series of measurements by measuring the size, shape, and position of every stone in the passages ; also the walls, the floor, the roof, and the ceiling of the King's Chamber ; and, to guard against any possible error, he repeated these measurements at three different times. " It was not until afte...r two months of apprenticeship at pyramid mensuration, " says this savant, " that I undertook that most important question of the precise angle of the grand gallery. " The mathematical mensuration finished, he ordered his assistants to carry the boxes containing the instruments the large altitude azimuth circle and telescope to the top of the structure, that, in connection with his geometrical calculations, he might make the necessary astronomical observations. This must have been a sublime spectacle !
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