Queen Móo and the Egyptian SphinxThe Author, 1900 - 277 pages |
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Page 202
... measurements undertaken in Yucatan to ascertain the metrical standard employed by the ancient architects . It is true that Dr. Augustus Le Plongeon asserts positively that they knew and used the metric system , and that the metre and ...
... measurements undertaken in Yucatan to ascertain the metrical standard employed by the ancient architects . It is true that Dr. Augustus Le Plongeon asserts positively that they knew and used the metric system , and that the metre and ...
Page 203
... measurements of the buildings erected by the Mayas . How , then , can he know , of his own knowledge , which of our modern standards of lineal measures applies to them exactly ? This , however , I do know , not from hearsay , but from ...
... measurements of the buildings erected by the Mayas . How , then , can he know , of his own knowledge , which of our modern standards of lineal measures applies to them exactly ? This , however , I do know , not from hearsay , but from ...
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Augustus Le Plongeon. made the strange discovery that the metre is the only measure of dimension which agrees with that adopted by these most ancient artists and architects ; another very striking point of contact with the Chaldean ...
Augustus Le Plongeon. made the strange discovery that the metre is the only measure of dimension which agrees with that adopted by these most ancient artists and architects ; another very striking point of contact with the Chaldean ...
Page 205
... measures was the metre , or be it the ten millionth part of the quarter of the meridian , is one of my eccentricities , but give no reasons for so attacking my statement . A year ago , through the columns of the New York Advertiser , a ...
... measures was the metre , or be it the ten millionth part of the quarter of the meridian , is one of my eccentricities , but give no reasons for so attacking my statement . A year ago , through the columns of the New York Advertiser , a ...
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... measures . Will he likewise accuse Ernest Renan , the late famous French scientist and professor in the Collège de France , of eccentricity , because on pages 60 and 61 of his " Histoire Générale des langues Sémitiques , " he says ...
... measures . Will he likewise accuse Ernest Renan , the late famous French scientist and professor in the Collège de France , of eccentricity , because on pages 60 and 61 of his " Histoire Générale des langues Sémitiques , " he says ...
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