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 |
מתוך הספר
תוצאות 1-5 מתוך 37
עמוד 171
... Attick drachms , the τάλαντον Αιγιναῖον ten thoufand , the τάλαντον Σύρον a thoufand five hund- red , the τάλαντον Αττικὶν fix thoufand , all mentioned by Julius Pollux ; the Talentum Ægyptium in Varro , containing eighty pondo , or ...
... Attick drachms , the τάλαντον Αιγιναῖον ten thoufand , the τάλαντον Σύρον a thoufand five hund- red , the τάλαντον Αττικὶν fix thoufand , all mentioned by Julius Pollux ; the Talentum Ægyptium in Varro , containing eighty pondo , or ...
עמוד 177
... Attick tetradrachm ; whereas in the feale , which is the beft judge of this controverfy , I find them manifeftly unequal , the Hebrew or Samaritan fhekel being much less than the Attick tetradrachm , But it may be queftioned , why after ...
... Attick tetradrachm ; whereas in the feale , which is the beft judge of this controverfy , I find them manifeftly unequal , the Hebrew or Samaritan fhekel being much less than the Attick tetradrachm , But it may be queftioned , why after ...
עמוד 246
... Attick obolus ; and fix oboli being in the Spax , to which drachma they fuppofe the denarius equal , therefore there must be twenty four femiffes , or twelve affes , in the denarius . But with much better reafon we may hence infer ...
... Attick obolus ; and fix oboli being in the Spax , to which drachma they fuppofe the denarius equal , therefore there must be twenty four femiffes , or twelve affes , in the denarius . But with much better reafon we may hence infer ...
עמוד 250
... Attick contained fix ; and therefore the Athenians , in hatred of the Æginaans , called it παχεῖαν δραχμήν , as ( b ) Pollux teftifies . And here as we ( g ) Plin . lib . 21. cap . 34. ( b ) Jul . Poll . 1. 9. c . 6 . confidered ...
... Attick contained fix ; and therefore the Athenians , in hatred of the Æginaans , called it παχεῖαν δραχμήν , as ( b ) Pollux teftifies . And here as we ( g ) Plin . lib . 21. cap . 34. ( b ) Jul . Poll . 1. 9. c . 6 . confidered ...
עמוד 253
... no remarkable difference , more than what is usually affigned by the masters of the mint for the wafte in coining , and for the labour of the work , With With these cautions if we shall examine the Attick drachma Of the DENARIUS . 253.
... no remarkable difference , more than what is usually affigned by the masters of the mint for the wafte in coining , and for the labour of the work , With With these cautions if we shall examine the Attick drachma Of the DENARIUS . 253.
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.