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The origine 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 pyramides. Together With the Explanation of divers Lines therein heretofore Measur'd. The second edition. By Mr. John Greaves, Astronomy Professor at Oxford. As also, some conjectures concerning the time when these pyramides were built; in Answer to certain Letters, &c.

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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Greaves, John, 1602-1652.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Pyramids--Egypt.
Pyramids.
Symbolism in the Bible.
Weights and measures--Great Britain--History.
Weights and measures.
Physical Description:
1 online resource ([10],47,[17]p. ) ill. ;
Other Title:
Origine and antiquity of our English weights and measures discover'd,
Place of Publication:
London : printed for J. Wilford, at the Three Flower-de-Luces in Little-Britain, 1727.
Notes:
An anonymous work based on Greaves' 'Pyramidographia'.
With a half-title.
Reproduction of original from British Library.
Cited in:
English Short Title Catalog, T122351.
OCLC:
642332387

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