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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    Vill | thd IK ing, thefe by a common confent built a Labyrinth, ‘Ill above the Lake of Meeris : dt the angle where the ia a Labyrinth ends, there w aPyramid of XL Orgyix, ‘iQ (that isof CCXL feet) #2 which are ingraven huge Gil vefemblances of Beafts, the paffage to 1t is under | ground. And this is that Pyramid, as may evie tad dently be collected out of (4) Strabo, in which a scrap, lib. 7. itil “mandes lyes buried, whom we may probably fup- init] spofe to have been the builder of it : his words are jie] thefe ; dr the end of this building (that is, of this vag) Labyrinth) which contaimes a furlong in length, tun) there is a eertaine* Sepulcher, being a quaarila- » Diodorus re- ‘jill terall Pyramid, each fide of which 1s CCCC fee | and the altitude ts the fame ; the name of him that sheen ete shih) yes Onvied there is Imandes, whom the Author of AC OrCHIE OE os lal the Epitome cals AZaiwdes, and Strabo himfelfe anda Ccbe in” win) not long after’, L{mandes ; Diodorus names him siete ee , 2 \wi| Ofymandeas. Which of thefe two,whether Hero- of the yeare were a | dots, or Strabo, hath given the trueft meafure of ete rm) V rr jit, unlefie the Pyramid were now extant, cannot a piece, with a i be decided by us. Though P/izy adheres tothe ‘rirtion ac- i cording to tucic | dimenfions of Herodotus: but whereas Herodotvs vamie of the ter- . li and Strabo mention there but one Pyramid, he ee | yy] Makes mention of many : And whereas Strabo their operatioss, | makes this tobe quadrilaterall, he defcribes thefe *heyhev4s7~ jv] Gif I miftake not his words) to be fexangular, They fay , this | ay | x B ah. 4 Dany. Circle was car-~ iin,| (¢) Supera, Nemefes XV adsculis incluferit Pyra- S* awe by eae a byfes,and the Per. | foans, at what time they conquered «Zgypt (Diodor. Sicul, lib.s,) He which foal (rronjly UY confider thu, and feverall other paffages , im Herodotus and Diodorus , of rhe fimpendicns i ‘it workes of the Egyptians, mult needes acknowledge, that for magn:ficence, if not fer Are, Ww | ahey farre exceedrd the Grecian’ and Romanes , evey whea their Empires were at i yl the bebef 5 and moft flours{hing. And therefire 5 ihofe Admiranda Rome. collected | », | 69 Lipfius , ave fcarce to be admired 3 if cempayed with fime of thefe, At this day WW | ghere ws hardly any vaft Colwune, or Obeliske, vemaming te Rome , worthy of nore, i WW which bath wot ancently beens brought thither out of Eeypr, (Ce) Phe, ibys, } | ; aps I 3, , uf LE u ry /¢ Wi des