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The Solution of the Pyramid Problem; or, Pyramid Discoveries With a New Theory as to their Ancient Use

The Solution of the Pyramid Problem; or, Pyramid Discoveries With a New Theory as to their Ancient Use

by Robert Ballard

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Author
Ballard, Robert, 1839-1912
Credits
Produced by Adrian Mastronardi, Hazel Batey and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)
Language
English
LoC Class
DT: History: General and Eastern Hemisphere: Africa
Subject
Pyramids
Category
Text
eBook-No.
40091
Project Gutenberg
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/40091
Release Date
June 26, 2012
Copyright
Public domain in the USA.

Contents

  1. 1.Untitled
  2. 2.THE SOLUTION — PYRAMID PROBLEM
  3. 3.NOTE.
  4. 4.CONTENTS.
  5. 5.LIST OF WORKS CONSULTED.
  6. 6.THE SOLUTION OF THE PYRAMID PROBLEM. — § 1. THE GROUND PLAN OF THE GIZEH GROUP. — Plan Ratios connected into Natural Numbers. — § 2. THE ORIGINAL CUBIT MEASURE OF THE GIZEH GROUP. — § 3. THE EXACT MEASURE OF THE BASES OF THE PYRAMIDS. — § 4. THE SLOPES, RATIOS, AND ANGLES OF THE THREE PRINCIPAL PYRAMIDS OF THE GIZEH GROUP. — § 5. THE EXACT DIMENSIONS OF THE PYRAMIDS. — § 6. GEOMETRICAL PECULIARITIES OF THE PYRAMIDS. — § 6A. THE CASING STONES OF THE PYRAMIDS. — § 7. PECULIARITIES OF THE TRIANGLES 3, 4, 5, AND 20, 21, 29. — § 8. GENERAL OBSERVATIONS. — § 9. THE PYRAMIDS OF EGYPT, THE THEODOLITES OF THE EGYPTIAN LAND SURVEYORS. — § 10. HOW THE PYRAMIDS WERE MADE USE OF. — § 11. DESCRIPTION OF THE ANCIENT PORTABLE SURVEY INSTRUMENT. — § 12. PRIMARY TRIANGLES AND THEIR SATELLITES;—OR THE ANCIENT SYSTEM OF RIGHT-ANGLED TRIGONOMETRY UNFOLDED BY A STUDY OF THE PLAN OF THE PYRAMIDS OF GIZEH. — Table of Some Primary Triangles and their Satellites. — § 13. THE SIZE AND SHAPE OF THE PYRAMIDS INDICATED BY THE PLAN. — § 14. A SIMPLE INSTRUMENT FOR LAYING OFF "PRIMARY TRIANGLES." — § 14 a . GENERAL OBSERVATIONS. — § 15. PRIMARY TRIANGULATION. — § 16. THE PENTANGLE OR FIVE POINTED STAR THE GEOMETRIC SYMBOL OF THE GREAT PYRAMID. — Table Showing the Comparative Measures of Lines. — § 17. THE MANNER IN WHICH THE SLOPE RATIOS OF THE PYRAMIDS WERE ARRIVED AT.

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