Our Inheritance in the Great Pyramid

Charles Piazzi Smyth

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Charles Piazzi Smyth

Publisher:: Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:: February 2013
Print publication year:: 2012
First published in:: 1864
Online ISBN:: 9781139176545
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139176545

Subjects:: History of Ideas, History, General, History of Ideas and Intellectual History
Series:: Cambridge Library Collection - Spiritualism and Esoteric Knowledge

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Charles Piazzi Smyth (1819–1900) was appointed to the post of Astronomer Royal for Scotland and Regius Professor of Astronomy at Edinburgh University in 1846. He was respected for his practical work, and his Teneriffe, an Astronomer's Experiment (1858) is also reissued in this series. However, this book, first published in 1864, is testimony to the author's interest in 'pyramidology', and although it was so popular in his own lifetime that it was reprinted five times, his eccentric interpretation of the data he had collected by measuring all aspects of the Great Pyramid of Giza damaged his scientific reputation. Smyth was convinced that the British measurement standard of an inch as a basic unit of length was associated with the sacred cubit of the Bible. This measure was supposedly incorporated in the Pyramid, which he claimed was built under divine guidance by the Ancient Israelites, and enshrined scientific information.

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Frontmatter
pp i-vi

PREFACE
pp vii-xii

Contents
pp xiii-xiv

ILLUSTRATIONS
pp xv-xviii

PART I - GEOGRAPHY AND THE EXTERIOR

CHAP. I - Introductory Statement
pp 1-10

CHAP. II - Geometrical proportions
pp 11-26

CHAP. III - standard of Length of the Pyramid
pp 27-39

CHAP. IV - Figure of the Earth
pp 40-46

CHAP. V - Latitude indications
pp 47-74

PART II - HISTORY AND THE INTERIOR

CHAP. I - Structural isolation of the Great Pyramid amongst Pyramids
pp 75-101

CHAP. II - The Porphyry Coffer
pp 102-118

CHAP. III - Why of that Size?
pp 119-144

CHAP. IV - Density and Temperature
pp 145-170

PART III - NATIONAL WEIGHTS AND MEASURES

CHAP. I - British Metrology and the Government of Great Britain
pp 171-197

CHAP. II - Capacity Measure of the Pyramid
pp 198-203

CHAP. III - Weight Measure
pp 204-210

CHAP. IV - Linear, Square, and Cubic Measure
pp 211-223

CHAP. V - Heat
pp 224-228

PART IV - MORE THAN SCIENCE

CHAP. I - The Sacred Cubit of the Jews
pp 229-252

CHAP. II - Time Measures in the Pyramid
pp 253-274

CHAP. III - Moses and the Wisdom of the Egyptians
pp 275-286

CHAP. IV - Mechanical Data
pp 287-316

PART V - INEVITABLE CONCLUSIONS

CHAP. I - Hierologists and Chronologists
pp 317-327

CHAP. II - Hyksos and Israelites
pp 328-350

CHAP. III - Superior Testimony
pp 351-367

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