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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    neath the fat of (wine, the Scythian eates, and the PAE yptian sespirg’ves imbalmes , ( or pouders, ) i@VVhich manner alfo is alluded to by -Avtoninus mjgander the word sépinec (c) that which the other nis vemllay was excrement itious matter, within few dayes lib. q- fel Anio, y Pall either be wipres, an imbalmed body, or meer ae puke a vfafhes 2 in. the on€ exprefling the cuftome of the ene igoo \i fZgy ptians, in the other of the Romanes, Where Mate-annin 1.4. \igyDoctor(*)Ca/anbone,the learned fon of alearned |“ “**48%™ ise ather, hath rightly corre&ted the errors of thofe | doiho render ‘nace 20 be a certaine fort of fifo. By #his meanes then falting the body, and imbalming (wit (the manner ofboth we fhall defcribe out of ' 2 «seed tah and Diodorus ) the foule was obliged yg according to the beliefe of the A.gyptians )to | |, (pbide withthe body, and the body cameto be as jy durable as marble. In fo much as P/ato,who lived 0. <Algypt, with Exdoxus no Jlefle then f ye EXX yeares, as (d) Strabo witnefleth, brings | efor an argument in his Phedor to prove the im- | oy of the foule, by the long duration of yquele bodyes. Which furely would have beene | ' dnore conclufive with him, could he have imagi- | med that to thefe times, that is till. cra c193 , #eares after him, they fhould have continued fo _ plid, and intire, as to this day we finde many of « Eeyptij vers / them. Wherefore (¢) Same Auguftine truly af- fran a pl iirmes, that the 0: Cyptians alone belecve the re~ siligentgs Cusane ™ errection,becaufe they carefully preferve their dead cies es Jah orpfes. For they have a cuftome of drying up the habent ficcare \ ANA soe tine 4Strabolibery, : COrporas& qv | i AOMes,, avd rendring them as durable as braffe, ¢iPOre® Mal i “Whefe [in their language |] they call Gabbares, Gabbare ea vo- ti Vez : rf : Cant. Awe pry, ii |) Whence the Gloffe of Ifdore, Gabares mortio- 120,De Diver, i en, os Vulcanins, his edition - OL as(f)Spondanus Paras de i \e eincl-dacpis, re Bene TeAdeS. ibs nar hes,
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