The Great Pyramid in Fact and in TheoryHealth Research Books, 1996 - 125 pages 1932 Contents: General Features - Geographical, Historical, Dimensional, Internal Passages & Chambers; structural Details of the Outside: corner Sockets, Platform, Casing Stones, Core Masonry, Base Measurements, Geometry of the Pyramid, Egyptian cub. |
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... POSITIONS OF THE PASSAGES AND CHAMBERS 43 ( a ) THE ANGLES OF THE PASSAGES 45 ( b ) THE DESCENDING PASSAGE 50 ( c ) THE ASCENDING PASSAGE AND GRAND GALLERY ( d ) THE KING'S CHAMBER 53 57 ( e ) THE QUEEN'S CHAMBER , PASSAGE AND FLOOR 57 ...
... POSITIONS OF THE PASSAGES AND CHAMBERS 43 ( a ) THE ANGLES OF THE PASSAGES 45 ( b ) THE DESCENDING PASSAGE 50 ( c ) THE ASCENDING PASSAGE AND GRAND GALLERY ( d ) THE KING'S CHAMBER 53 57 ( e ) THE QUEEN'S CHAMBER , PASSAGE AND FLOOR 57 ...
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Contents
DIMENSIONAL | 11 |
CHAPTER II | 17 |
VI | 19 |
VIII | 5 |
XI | 12 |
1 | 18 |
I | 48 |
ΙΟ | 55 |
THE QUEENS CHAMBER | 77 |
THE ANTECHAMBER | 80 |
THE KINGS CHAMBER | 84 |
THE COFFER | 91 |
THE CHAMBERS OF CONSTRUCTION | 96 |
CHAPTER IV | 99 |
THE CUBIT | 100 |
THE THEORY OF AREAS | 102 |
SECTION PAGE XIII THE DESCENDING PASSAGE | 58 |
THE SUBTERRANEAN CHAMBER OR PIT | 63 |
THE ASCENDING PASSAGE | 64 |
15 | 65 |
THE GRAND GALLERY | 70 |
THE WELLSHAFT AND GROTTO | 73 |
19 | 76 |
THE ANGLE OF THE PASSAGES | 104 |
36 | 106 |
THE PRECESSIONAL CYCLE ΙΙΟ | 110 |
THE OBLIQUITY OF THE ECLIPTIC III | 111 |
DIMENSIONS OF THE PYRAMID | 113 |
BIBLIOGRAPHY | 119 |
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according to Petrie Ancient Egypt Antechamber appear approximately Ascending base length Base-side length Biblical Pyramidists blocks British inches builders calculated Centre Line Coffer commencement construction Core Masonry corners course Davidson depth Descending Passage diagram diameter difference dimensions east wall edge Egypt Egyptian cubit excavation feet figures floor-line Girdle Stones Grand Gallery granite beams Granite Plug grooves Grotto Herodotus History of Egypt horizontal length horizontal Passage hypotenuse joints Khufu King's Chamber limestone limits of error Line of Pyramid London Manetho Mean height Morton Edgar north side north wall Passages and Chambers perpendicular Plate XXI Platform Level portion Professor Piazzi Smyth Professor Smyth Pyramid inches Pyramid Passages Queen's Chamber Ramps ratio rock roof SECTIONAL DRAWING seen Shaft shown in Plate side walls Sir Flinders Petrie Socket solar south wall standard cubit structure SUBTERRANEAN CHAMBER theoretical angle theory transverse measurement triangle triangular arch upper vertical height whole number