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
... whole is prefix'd , An HISTORICAL and CRITICAL ACCOUNT of the LIFE and WRITINGs of the AUTHOR . In TWO VOLUMES . Published by THOMAS BIRCH , M. A. F. R.S. and MEMBER of the SOCIETY of ANTIQUARIES , LONDON . LONDON : Printed by J. HUGHS ...
... whole is prefix'd , An HISTORICAL and CRITICAL ACCOUNT of the LIFE and WRITINGs of the AUTHOR . In TWO VOLUMES . Published by THOMAS BIRCH , M. A. F. R.S. and MEMBER of the SOCIETY of ANTIQUARIES , LONDON . LONDON : Printed by J. HUGHS ...
עמוד xvi
... whole and its parts ; and the other " matters mention'd are only by the bye and " accidental , which fhews how useful theo- " ries may be for the future to fuch as fhall " make obfervations ; nay , tho ' they should " not be true , for ...
... whole and its parts ; and the other " matters mention'd are only by the bye and " accidental , which fhews how useful theo- " ries may be for the future to fuch as fhall " make obfervations ; nay , tho ' they should " not be true , for ...
עמוד xvii
... whole country and place of " their stations was nothing but sand . Give << me leave to take notice , that Mr. Greaves " doth affirm , that the great Pyramid is " founded upon a natural rock , which rifeth " above the reft of the fand ...
... whole country and place of " their stations was nothing but sand . Give << me leave to take notice , that Mr. Greaves " doth affirm , that the great Pyramid is " founded upon a natural rock , which rifeth " above the reft of the fand ...
עמוד xxii
... whole , the author obferves , that it may be fafely concluded , that the base of this Pyramid is a fquare , or nearly fo ; and that the fides are equilateral triangles , whofe dimenfions are not less than Mr. Greaves's , nor more than M ...
... whole , the author obferves , that it may be fafely concluded , that the base of this Pyramid is a fquare , or nearly fo ; and that the fides are equilateral triangles , whofe dimenfions are not less than Mr. Greaves's , nor more than M ...
עמוד xxxvi
... whole work of Abulfeda was not publish'd , and promised an edition of it ; but , being prevented by death , left it to William Schickard , who , in his Tarick feu Series Regum Perfia ( k ) , gave the world , out of Abulfeda , a great ...
... whole work of Abulfeda was not publish'd , and promised an edition of it ; but , being prevented by death , left it to William Schickard , who , in his Tarick feu Series Regum Perfia ( k ) , gave the world , out of Abulfeda , a great ...
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
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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.