Volume 1

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 ... As also, some conjectures concerning the time when these pyramids were built; in answer to certain letters, & c.

  • Greaves, John, 1602-1652.
Date:
1745
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Credit: 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 ... As also, some conjectures concerning the time when these pyramids were built; in answer to certain letters, & c. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    RGRERTT ETE ee ee eT SRO Ne PRE ere Od ee a 34 © The Antient Eftimate of that the Stature of Méh now is the fame as at the Beginning of the World. And as ‘touching the Invention of Weights we find that when Men began to multiply upon the Face of the Earth, and divers Arts were found out, they had alfo the Invention of Metals long before the Flood, which we may fuppofe introduced the Ufe of Weights, without which thé Value of Metals could not be known. And that the Standards __. for other Meafures might alfo be \Stan- ? dards for'thefe, ‘they take a Sort of Water, | ‘whofe Weight was known to -be conftant ‘ and certain, and this is fuppofed to be Rain : Water probably, at fome certain Time of . i the Year in the oriental Countries; -whete it’ falls Only at certain’ Seafons ;. and with this Water they fill the Meafure called Bath, whofe. Weight is made the fixed Standard for Matters of Gravity which we cali Weights. This great Weight is decimally divided, the s 1oooth part whereof is an Ounce, whofe 4 half is equal to the Yewifh Shekel’: This : Ounce, as appears in Scripture Weights and RF 4 ae a Sree Sa ; ne RS ee oe AS + scl start eS hale Se i Meafures, is about equal to our vfveirdupois . Be Ounce, from whence proceed the, moft an- tient {mall Weights; yet you are very much inthe right, where you affirm that the light- eit Sort of Rain- Water,is heavier than 1000 | Ounces to the Bath; for if fuch a Meafure - be truly and exactly fill’d to the Brim, it,