Miscellaneous Works of Mr. John Greaves: Many of which are Now First Published : I. Pyramidographia : II. a Discourse of the Roman Foot : III. Tracts Upon Various Subjects : IV. a Description of the Grand Seignor's Seraglio : to which are Added, I. Reflections on the Pyramidographia, Written by an Anonymous Author : II. a Dissertation Upon the Sacred Cubit of the Jews : Translated from the Latin of Sir Isaac Newton, Not Yet Published : to the Whole is Prefix'd, an Historical and Critical Account of the Life and Writings of the Author, כרך 1J. Hughs, 1737 |
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עמוד 5
... second Pyramid , Herodo- tus and Diodorus affign the author of it to have been Cephren , brother to the former ( k ) Eufeb . lib . 9. Evangel . præpar . cap . 19 . ( 1 ) Diod . Sic . lib . 1. Χέμμις κατασκεύασε ἢ τω με γίς * τειῶν ...
... second Pyramid , Herodo- tus and Diodorus affign the author of it to have been Cephren , brother to the former ( k ) Eufeb . lib . 9. Evangel . præpar . cap . 19 . ( 1 ) Diod . Sic . lib . 1. Χέμμις κατασκεύασε ἢ τω με γίς * τειῶν ...
עמוד 6
... Second Pyramid , like to the first in respect of the art and workmanship , but far inferior to it in respect of magni- tude . The third Pyramid was erected by ( p ) My- cerinus , fome call him Mycherinus , as it is ( * ) Herodot . lib ...
... Second Pyramid , like to the first in respect of the art and workmanship , but far inferior to it in respect of magni- tude . The third Pyramid was erected by ( p ) My- cerinus , fome call him Mycherinus , as it is ( * ) Herodot . lib ...
עמוד 46
... second of Vaphres king of Egypt , in the computation of Clemens Alexandrinus . This Zedekiah , faith ( a ) Jofephus , having been a confederate of the Babylonians for eight years , broke his faith with them , and joining league with the ...
... second of Vaphres king of Egypt , in the computation of Clemens Alexandrinus . This Zedekiah , faith ( a ) Jofephus , having been a confederate of the Babylonians for eight years , broke his faith with them , and joining league with the ...
עמוד 67
... Second inferiour to it , and of an easier price , and a third cheaper than the former : Which being feen , they ask of them , according to what pattern they will have the dead body prepared . When they have agreed upon the price , they ...
... Second inferiour to it , and of an easier price , and a third cheaper than the former : Which being feen , they ask of them , according to what pattern they will have the dead body prepared . When they have agreed upon the price , they ...
עמוד 98
... second , and fo in order the reft , like fo many stairs , rife one above another to the top , which ends not in a point , as mathe matical Pyramids do , but in a little flat or fquare . Of this Herodotus hath no where left us the ...
... second , and fo in order the reft , like fo many stairs , rife one above another to the top , which ends not in a point , as mathe matical Pyramids do , but in a little flat or fquare . Of this Herodotus hath no where left us the ...
מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
Abulfeda Ægypt affes affigned Aftronomy alfo almoſt alſo amongst ancient anſwer Arabians Attick drachme aurei aureus bafis becauſe befides beſt coins confequently congius cubit defcribed defcription denarius denarius Confularis difcourfe dimenfions Diodorus diſcover doth drachmes Egypt Egyptians expreffed fame fecond feems feen feet fepulchres feven feveral fhall fhew fhould fide filver fince firft firſt fome fometimes fpeak fquare ftandard ftands ftone fuch fuppofe furely grains Greaves Greek hath Hefychius Herodotus himſelf hundred imbalmed Jerufalem Jofeph John Greaves Julius Pollux king lefs Manethos marble meaſures Mofes moft moſt muſt obferved occafion ounce paffage paffed Perfian Plin Pliny Plutarch pondus prefent proportion Pyramid quæ quinarius reafon refpect reft reigned Roman foot Roman pound Rome ſhall Shekel Strabo Suidas tetradrachme thefe themſelves theſe thofe thoſe thouſand tion uſed valuation Villalpandus weight writes δὲ ἐν καὶ μὲν τὰς τὸ τὸν
קטעים בולטים
עמוד 254 - Notwithstanding, lest we should offend them, go thou to the sea, and cast an hook, and take up the fish that first cometh up; and when thou hast opened his mouth, thou shalt find a piece of money : that take, and give unto them for me and th^e.
עמוד 27 - And it shall come to pass, when Pharaoh shall call you, and shall say, What is your occupation ? that ye shall say, Thy servants...
עמוד 110 - They fetcht massy stones from the /Ethiopians, and made with these the foundation of the three Pyramids, fastening them together with lead and iron. They built the gates of them forty cubits...
עמוד 116 - ... galleries. At the end of it, on the right hand, is the well mentioned by Pliny ; the which is circular, and not square, as the Arabian writers describe...
עמוד 61 - Pyramid, a chamber, in which there was a hollow stone : in it was a statue of stone like a man, and within it a man, upon whom was a breast-plate of gold set with jewels ; upon...
עמוד 119 - ... we at length come to another partition. The length of the gallery, from the well below to this partition above, is an hundred fifty and four feet : but if we meafure the pavement of the floor, it is...
עמוד 46 - And the city was broken up, and all the men of war fled by night by the way of the gate between two walls, which is by the king's garden: (now the Chaldees were against the city round about:) and the king went the way toward the plain.
עמוד 92 - The reft of the Sides were examined by a Line, for want of an even Level, and a convenient Diftance to place my Mtrumeots , both which the Area, on the former fide, afforded.
עמוד 118 - ... and meeting above in a kind of arch, or rather an angle. On the eaft fide of this room, in the middle of it...
עמוד 111 - He also put in the coloured Pyramid the commentaries of the Priests in chests of black marble, and with every Priest a book, in which were the wonders of his profession, and of his actions, and of his nature, and what was done in his time, and what is, and what shall be, from the beginning of time to the end of it.