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Our Inheritance in the Great Pyramid (Paperback)
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Our Inheritance in the Great Pyramid (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Spiritualism and Esoteric Knowledge
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Charles Piazzi Smyth (1819 1900) was appointed to the post of
Astronomer Royal for Scotland and Regius Professor of Astronomy at
Edinburgh University in 1846. He was respected for his practical
work, and his Teneriffe, an Astronomer's Experiment (1858) is also
reissued in this series. However, this book, first published in
1864, is testimony to the author's interest in 'pyramidology', and
although it was so popular in his own lifetime that it was
reprinted five times, his eccentric interpretation of the data he
had collected by measuring all aspects of the Great Pyramid of Giza
damaged his scientific reputation. Smyth was convinced that the
British measurement standard of an inch as a basic unit of length
was associated with the sacred cubit of the Bible. This measure was
supposedly incorporated in the Pyramid, which he claimed was built
under divine guidance by the Ancient Israelites, and enshrined
scientific information.
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