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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. Astronomy Professor at Oxford. As also, some conjectures concerning the time when these pyramids were built; in Answer to certain Letters, &c.
- Format:
- Book
- Standardized Title:
- Origine and antiquity of our English weights and measures discover'd.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Pyramids.
- Weights and measures--History.
- Weights and measures.
- Weights and measures--Great Britain.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource ([8],92p. ) ill. ;
- Edition:
- The second edition.
- Other Title:
- Origin and antiquity of our English weights and measures discover'd.
- Place of Publication:
- London : printed for W. Payne, opposite Durham-Yard, and W. Bathoe, in Church-Street, both in the Strand, MDCCXLV. [1745]
- Notes:
- This tract according to Biographia Britannica was not written by Greaves; in fact it is an anonymous work based on John Greaves' 'Pyramidographia'.
- Reproduction of original from British Library.
- Cited in:
- English Short Title Catalog, T113790.
- OCLC:
- 642287712
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