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

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

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    Hi mon expenfe to win her favour, they built this Masa\' Ht nument. But to patie by this Fable (for it is moq' Hi better) and to returne to our inquirie. The fam!” i Author immediately before ingenuonfly confeffess} !”” Hi that concerning them all three, there is little aig!” All greement either amongit the Natives, or amongf{{q ” | g Idem ibid, Writers 3 (7) For they fay, Armzus made tha il eee sis greateft of thefe ; the fecond, Amafis ; the thirad ne poiw ai 5 du- Inaron. And ({) Flizy informing us, that the//q> og aides three were made in feventie eight yeares , amim' aA Si oda foure moneths , \eaves the Founders of themyp' rec [4-M« very ambiguous : For reciting the names of [Tres vera fae Many Authors that had deferibed them , hesq' eer concludes; (¢) Inter omnes eos non conft at a qusi ae Plin, lib. 36, bus fate fint , juftiffimo cafn obliteratys tanta) cap.12. vanitatis authoribus. @ Plin, ibid. | H| The Arabians, whofe excellencies I judge tig!’ have been in the f{peculative fciences, and not ii the Hiftories, and Occurrences of ancient timess) affigne other Founders of thefe three, differem# from thofe mentioned by the Greeks. The Authangi of the Book intitled, A/orat Alzeman, writes Mitt they differ concerning him that built the Pyramidssh it Some fay Jofeph, fome fay Nimrod, fome Dalukailf ii the Queene, and fome that the Agyptians buzilh™i\n them before the floud : For they forefaw that ii§ Mim would be, and they carried thither thetr treafure:§ tn but it profited them nothing. In another place hig!ti; tels us,that she Coptétes (or gy ptians}repore thas iin; thefe two greater Pyramids, azd the leffer, which 214 ‘Wii coloured, are Sepulchers, In the Eaft Pyramid 24 Wy King Saurid, in the Weft Pyramid hos brotheeh iy Hougib, avd in the col:wred Pyramid Fazfarinoum) th, the fonne of Hougib ; The Sabeans re/ate, that oma Nich; ¢
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