 | John Greaves - 1737 - 410 pages
...facred Cubit. In the mean time for the precife determination of the Cubit of Memphis, I mould choofe iq pitch upon the length of the chamber in the middle of the Pyramid, where the king's monument ftood, being very large, and built with admirable skill ; which length was the twentieth part of the... | |
 | John Greaves - 1737 - 416 pages
...Cubit. In the mean time for the precife determination of the Cubit of Memphis, I mould choofe to pi'ch upon the length of the chamber in the middle of the Pyramid, where the king's monument ftood, being very large, and built with admirable skill; which length was the twentieth part of the... | |
 | James Young Simpson - 1872 - 310 pages
...Memorandum on the Length of the cubit of Memphis, in APPENDIX, No. V. 2 Sir Isaac Newton says — " In the precise determination of the cubit of Memphis,...length of the chamber in the middle of the pyramid." Greaves gives this length 34-38 = 20 cubits of 20-628 inches. 3 Yet this, the Memphian cubit, " need... | |
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I mould choofe iq pitch upon the length of the chamber in the middle of the Pyramid, where the king's monument ftood, being very large, and built with admirable skill ; which length was the twentieth part of the length of the whole Pyramid, and contained... 