Title: OUR INHERITANCE IN THE GREAT PYRAMID;
Including All the Most Important Discoveries up to the Time of Publication; With Twenty-Four Explanatory Plates; Giving Maps, Plans, Elevations, and
Sections
Author: Piazzi Smyth, F.R.S.E., F.R.A.S., Astronomer
Royal for Scotland
Publisher: Daldy, Isbister & Co
City: LondonYear: 1877 (Third Edition)Binding Style: Hardcover
Pagination:
626 pages + advertisementsIllustrated: Yes
Book Details + Condition: "Third and much enlarged edition" from 1877 of Piazzi Smyth's OUR INHERITANCE IN THE GREAT PYRAMID. Publisher's original green decorated and
gilt-stamped cloth with triple-key ring device on front cover. Illustrated with
24 full-page explanatory astronomical and geometrical black-and-white plates.
8vo. A fascinating compendium of data on the Great Pyramid, in which the author
details the three "keys" for opening the secrets of the structure: pure
mathematics; applied mathematics; and positive human history as supplied in
religious connections and divine revelations, especially in the Old and New
Testaments. Overall in good condition: some wear to boards; bumped corners and fraying to spine edges; part of front endpaper is stuck to frontispiece (back; the image itself is fine); part of last ad at end is stuck to rear; pages are clean and free of writing save former owner name on inside front board and on endpaper; please see images for more condition details. See below for more
information on the author, Charles Piazzi Smyth.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Charles Piazzi Smyth (1819-1900), in
addition to a highly-regarded career in the field of astronomy (serving as the
Astronomer-Royal for Scotland for a period of years), was also an Egyptologist
of sorts. Having corresponded with pyramid theorist John Taylor (1781-1864),
Smyth participated in an expedition to Egypt to accurately measure "every
surface, dimension, and aspect of the Great Pyramid". His findings were
published in 1864 (the first publication date of this work), which over the
years he expanded. While his conclusions regarding a divinely-inspired
"pyramid inch" were subsequently proven untrue, he still "made
the most accurate measurements of the Great Pyramid that any explorer had made
up to that time, and he photographed the interior passages, using a magnesium
light, for the first time" (Wikipedia).
