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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    (Hort. Ode 30, bib. 3) * Plin, lib, 36, Cap. 12, ¢ Lucan, lib.8. p Diodor.lib, z. gq Plato,& alij, That they were the works of egyptian Kings Wiis but ot which of them, and at what time, we arcehipti Pliny,otzofa, ac frultaoftentati. Of the fame Opis tion is Leo Afrscanna, in his accurate defcriptiom ot Africa,after many yeares travell in thofe partss puis fac per defertum arenaceum, itur ad Pyramidess pits) wempe ad prifcorum Meypti Regum Sepulchras| guo in loco Memphin o/zm extitiffe afferunr. Tidy) may be it wasthe Royall Prerogative, and thasthina it was prohibited to private men, how wealthyy,itiin and poteiit foever,to be thus.intomded ; but withs-p out fome farther light from the Ancients, iit} would be too great a pretumption to determineepitis; any thing, fi, (0) Lucan, 1. know not upon what ground], makes as if the Prolemies had imitated the e4--|) Sypttan Kings in this particular : Cam Ptolemzorum manes feriemg, prdendans\h|y Pyramides ¢landant. | Surely ifthey did, thefe are none of thofe : Forr}lks. they would have built them at lexandriag, bhi, which was then the Regall Seat, and not att Memphys, the whigh as (p) Diodorus aflures us,,| began to decay afer the butiding of Alexandriay, like as the aneient 7 hebes (as the (4 )Grecians ‘tine led itor she City of the Sunne, asthe c# ¢ ptians, according:
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