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. ... By Mr. John Greaves. ... As Also, Some Conjectures Concerning the Time when These Pyramids Were Built; ...W. Payne, and W. Bathoe, 1745 - 92 pages |
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24 Sides 360 cubick Palms alfo equal Allowance for Wafte alſo amongſt antient Cubit antient Eſtimate Aroura Attick Avoirdupois Ounce Bath Book of Ezekiel brazen Laver Brim Bufhel Chain Church Climes Congius cubick Inches Cylinder Digits divers Eftimate EGYPTIAN Pyramids Egyptians English Feet English Furlong Epha equal to 100 expreffed faid fame fays feems fhould fignifies fimple Meaſure firft firſt Flood fome Foot fquare ftand fuch Grains fuppofe fure Gallon glish Grains of Wheat Greaves Greaves's grofs Meaſure half Herodotus Hieroglyphicks Hyde Inch Meaſure infcribed Jofephus Jugerum King King Solomon Laver lefs Likewife Manetho meant fuch Meers Metonymy moſt antient Number obferved Ogdoads old Saxons Perches Perfian Polygon of 24 Pounds preferved Reaſon regular Polygon Roman Seth Sextaries Square Chiliad Square Cubits Square English Square Paces Stade thefe Pyramids theſe antient thofe thoſe Tomb's ufual underſtand underſtood Veffel Waſte Weights and Meaſures whence whereof whofe Wiſdom