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Life and Work at the Great Pyramid During the Months of January, February, March, and April, A.D. 1865; With a Discussion of the Facts Ascertained Vol

Life and Work at the Great Pyramid During the Months of January, February, March, and April, A.D. 1865; With a Discussion of the Facts Ascertained Vol


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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1867 edition. Excerpt: ...course though with due employment of the good ' reference scale instead?' may remark many an intelligent reader. It should have been so, but there was unhappily wheel within wheel of misfortune. The reference scale was originally to have been of metal, and would then, in its great box, have been, for a few weeks, a very fair reference indeed for rectilinear length; but when I proposed that material to the great optician he urged such a variety of objections, and especially the greater expense over wood, as put it quite beyond my private means to ambition possession of. And when he further asked, with considerable cleverness, ' What import-' ance there would be in having the reference scale ' of an unchanging material, if it could be at any ' moment compared by means of the microscope-' compass with the stone standard?'--of course 1 was taken captive by my own arrangements. Doubly so in the end, when the stone standard and microscope-compass never arrived; triply so, when the heat and drought of an Egyptian climate began to bring to light, a peculiarity in the action of the wooden reference scale, that had eventually been prepared in the learned optician's workshop. 1 A species of cargo unknown in Utopia; and in any other state where the lives of seamen are valued by Government and the more highly than a few i. '. of freight. Among those who are fastidious about accurate measuring scales, though not to the very highest re quirements of science, there is a great appreciation of wood, when used in the direction of its fibre, and that fibre straight, dry, and well-seasoned; wherefore they find, that good sound deal is about as trusty a substance as can be employed; and the question is only, among different examples of it, to pick out the most...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781151231451
  • Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Publisher Imprint: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 138
  • Spine Width: 8 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1151231452
  • Publisher Date: 01 Jul 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 259 gr


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