Pyramidographia: or a description of the pyramids in Aegypt / [John Greaves].

  • John Greaves
Date:
1646
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Credit: Pyramidographia: or a description of the pyramids in Aegypt / [John Greaves]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Nindat#ros creanat, Whereas thefe on the contrary, tqiave depraved, what hach been. in this particular, wkwivich treth delivered by rhe Ancijents.For where- hts Hferodorus, and Diodorus, equal the fide of the vmyyafs to three hundred feet, and Péiny extends j: to three hundred fixty three, thefe make it iyaftly a third part greater then the Pyramid at yacome of C, Caftivs, neere the mons tefpacens. jo that either they have muca enlarged that at Kome, or fhruncke , and contracted this. For he Pyramid at Rome, exactly meafured n that fide, which ftands within the City, Hi \ nl f : completely feventy eight feet Englifh in feadh sto which if we adde a third part of it, bs refult will be an hundred and foure : which if ¢ ube , ould be equal to this Lgyptian Pyramid, in the _jgotion, and acception of Belonius. An unpar- | gonable overfight,no leffe then two hundred feer, *? a2 a very licle more then three hundred. For fo ( jauch, befides the authority of Herodorws, and J zodoras,betore cited, J take the fide of this Py- midto be, andthe altitude to have muchthe i ame proportion F would gladly have feen in this, the name of Mycerinus the Founder of it ingraven, as (a)Di- it dorees mentions : or that other infeription in the ‘dttt, whereof Herodotus procured the interpre- W-fation ; but both have been defaced by time. dis words are thefe:(b) In the Pyramed there re eEgyptian charatters infcribed, which thew pow much was expended upon the workemen, in Mdilles, onions, and garlicke, which an interpreter |45 I well remember) faid was the fumme of a t) | ( \ iT) \¥ 7 \A al \ Aa ag as ater Lab Aly ( a lu ave —— —> ee ! | ifs, 3 1 1] Me - ‘ F ig Poonfend and fix hundred ralenrs of flver, which i fee. if pe ep 113 a Diedor.I 5, b Herodot J. 2. Zeon paerr lees 4s die Dexbajee lay An Yom wv ae us Cx pee? . bote ec Te ouppacilus Ky Go f= tt, %y onneodds veneer On TOi7g ¢ alo vO OY Ke}, @’ gue eo region ate) ve 0 épy leracs ton SALOU Eg Te ee fie EC awoeg Te Th, ti My 4 AOR. Sx ie 2) Pees BTV odehy, ec.