The Great Pyramid: Observatory, Tomb, And Temple
The Great Pyramid: Observatory, Tomb, And Temple
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requirements of the theory, and (2) many features explicable in no other way.
1 Some may be disposed to reject a change which they may imagine displaces the Pleiades from the position which Professor Piazzi Smyth assigned to that interesting group at the date when he supposed the pyramid was built. But there never was the least real significance in that position. If the mistaken idea entertained by many, and repeated by Flammarion, Haliburton, and others, that the Pleiades at their meridian sho...ne down the Great Gallery at the very time when the pole-star of 2170 B.C. shone down the descending gallery, had been correct, there might have been some reason to be struck by the coincidence. But it should hardly be necessary to tell the reader, what every astronomer knows, that the Pleiades never did or could shine down the Great Gallery, and in the year 2170 B.C. were thirty-eight degrees (!) north of that position, Hosted by Google 156 THE GREAT PYRAMID, But here our difficulties begin. Astronomy no longer lends its aid when we ask why the builder of the Great Pyramid wanted to have an astro- nomical observatory as well as a tomb.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
requirements of the theory, and (2) many features explicable in no other way.
1 Some may be disposed to reject a change which they may imagine displaces the Pleiades from the position which Professor Piazzi Smyth assigned to that interesting group at the date when he supposed the pyramid was built. But there never was the least real significance in that position. If the mistaken idea entertained by many, and repeated by Flammarion, Haliburton, and others, that the Pleiades at their meridian sho...ne down the Great Gallery at the very time when the pole-star of 2170 B.C. shone down the descending gallery, had been correct, there might have been some reason to be struck by the coincidence. But it should hardly be necessary to tell the reader, what every astronomer knows, that the Pleiades never did or could shine down the Great Gallery, and in the year 2170 B.C. were thirty-eight degrees (!) north of that position, Hosted by Google 156 THE GREAT PYRAMID, But here our difficulties begin. Astronomy no longer lends its aid when we ask why the builder of the Great Pyramid wanted to have an astro- nomical observatory as well as a tomb.
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