The origin and antiquity of our English weights and measures discover'd. By their near agreement with such standards that are now found in one of the Egyptian pyramids. Together with The Explanation of divers Lines therein heretofore measur'd. By Mr. John Greaves. Astronomy Professor at Oxford. As also, some conjectures concerning the time when these pyramids were built; in Answer to certain Letters, &c.

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MDCCXLV. [1745]
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Origine and antiquity of our English weights and measures discover'd.

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London : printed for W. Payne, opposite Durham-Yard, and W. Bathoe, in Church-Street, both in the Strand, MDCCXLV. [1745]

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[8],92p. : ill. ; 120.

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The second edition.

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ESTC T113790

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