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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    waver Se et & ab apt pte AD SO Ot SKILFUL READER. HE Standards in this Pyramid fo \ \* ‘nearly agreeing with our prefentEn~ sw elith Meafures, and with thofe of : the antient Perfians, Greeks, and Romans, deferve the Conjfideration of the Learned, as being in all Likelibood introduéto- vy to. the Difcovery of all other Matters of greater. Importance. Por °tis fearce to be doubted that the Antients who thus carefully preferved: here their primitive Meafures with fo much Accuracy, would be lefs careful to leave behind them fome Monuments of what o~ ther Arts their Wifdom and long Experience bad found out for the Benefit of Mankind. And how probable it ts that the other Pyra- mids not yet opened may produce fomething of that Nature, is not (methinks) very hard to guefs. This gave me a Thought that thefe Papers, if publifhed, might at one time or o- ther become ufeful. But the true Origin of our Englifh Meafures, (a Thing not yet taken Notice of) and their great Antiquity here found, : Hs pe. AS ae