Volume 1

The origin and antiquity of our English weights and measures discover'd. By their near agreement with such standards that are now found in one of the Egyptian pyramids. Together with the explanation of divers lines therein heretofore measur'd / By Mr. John Greaves ... As also, some conjectures concerning the time when these pyramids were built; in answer to certain letters, & c.

  • Greaves, John, 1602-1652.
Date:
1745
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Credit: The origin and antiquity of our English weights and measures discover'd. By their near agreement with such standards that are now found in one of the Egyptian pyramids. Together with the explanation of divers lines therein heretofore measur'd / By Mr. John Greaves ... As also, some conjectures concerning the time when these pyramids were built; in answer to certain letters, & c. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    what Time the Learning of the Greeks, tho” about the Days of Homer, was not worth taking noticeof. But the Egyptians are faid, by Strabo, to have conceal’d their Learn- ing under many Symbols, and were not eafi- ly drawn to unfold it: Neither does it ap- pear that the moft myfterious Parts thereof were ever known to Foreigners. And ’tis probable after fuch time as they were con-. _quer’d firft by the Perfians, and after that _ by the Greeks, their Nobility (which were alfo their Priefts, in whofe Books andBreafts their antient Learning was locked up) being much decay’d, if not almoft ruin’d, I fay, *tis very probable after thefe great Alterati- ons, that the latter Egypigans {carce under- {tood their antient Learnin&, for which caufe they have been efteem’d fabulous in whate- ver they wrote. Infomuch, that Fo/epbus faith, if that which they report were true, it were impoffible that they fhould fo much differ ; but they labour in the Invention of - Lies, and write neither agreeable to them- felves nor to each other. And Manetho is thought by fome. to deferve this from Fo/e- phus as much as any of them. And the Truth is, his firft Dynafties of Egyptian Kings have but little Truth in them, unlefs we fuppofe many of them to be coexiftent, _and alfo at the fame Time that there was one Pharoah or King over all Egypt. If this ne 6,