Roger Herz-Fischler “The Shape of the Great Pyramid"
Wilfrid Laurier University Press | 2000-12 | ISBN: 0889203245 | 305 pages | Djvu | 6,1 Mb
Who has not seen a picture of the Great Pyramid of Egypt, massive in size but deceptively simple in shape, and not wondered how that shape was determined?
Starting in the late eighteenth century, eleven main theories were proposed to explain the shape of the Great Pyramid. Even though some of these theories are well known, there has never been a detailed examination of their origins and dissemination. Twenty years of research using original and difficult-to-obtain source material has allowed Roger Herz-Fischler to piece together the intriguing story of these theories. Archaeological evidence and ancient Egyptian mathematical texts are discussed in order to place the theories in their proper historical context. The theories themselves are examined, not as abstract mathematical discourses, but as writings by individual authors, both well known and obscure, who were influenced by the intellectual and social climate of their time.
Among results discussed are the close links of some of the pyramid theories with other theories, such as the theory of evolution, as well as the relationship between the pyramid theories and the struggle against the introduction of the metric system. Of special note is the chapter examining how some theories spread whereas others were rejected.
This book has been written to be accessible to a wide audience, yet four appendixes, detailed endnotes and an exhaustive bibliography provide specialists with the references expected in a scholarly work
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They werent dumb those egyptians :)
Well I worked out how they built them. They didnt build up. They dug a huge hole in the sand which was much thicker in those days and lowered the blocks down untill the pyramid point was level with the top of the hole. Then they just cleared the sand away. So simple,just like me.
Naw guys, this is how they did it. They began to chew on some bubblicious, then when the gum was as the right state, they began to blow a big bubble simultaneously when it got to the right size, they stopped put it on the sand and began to build on it. Eventually the bubblicious began to take the form of the pyramid and so they continued to build on it..........then Viola!!. They said, " Holy shit, this is fricken kew let do some more".
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