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The origin and antiquity of our English weights and measures discover'd : by their near agreement with such standards that are now found in one of the Egyptian pyramids : together with the explanation of divers lines therein heretofore measur'd

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Title: The origin and antiquity of our English weights and measures discover'd : by their near agreement with such standards that are now found in one of the Egyptian pyramids : together with the explanation of divers lines therein heretofore measur'd

Level: Item

Classmark: Early Science 2 1745/GRE

Creator(s): Greaves, John (1602-1652)

Publisher: Printed for W. Payne, and W. Bathoe

Publication city: London

Date(s): 1745

Language: English

Size and medium: [8], 92 p

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/242665

Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991014147269705181

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"As also some conjectures concerning the time when these pyramids were built; in answer to certain letters, &c."


Includes: Appendix. Being a short, but clear interpretation of the most antient hieroglyphicks found in the Holy Bible.


Appendix based on Greaves' Pyramidographia.


Goldsmiths'-Kress library of economic literature, no. 8133.

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