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The Solution of the Pyramid Problem; or, Pyramid Discoveries
Robert Ballard
A railway engineer looked at the Giza pyramids and saw not mystery but geometry: ground plans, ratios, and the ancient cubit worked out with a surveyor's tools. Robert Ballard argues the builders encoded a system of measure in stone, and sets out to recover it. A confident, diagram-filled attempt to read the pyramids as mathematics. Follow the numbers up the slope.
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27 chapters
- 1PYRAMID PROBLEM
- 2NOTE.
- 3CONTENTS.
- 4LIST OF WORKS CONSULTED.
- 5THE SOLUTION OF THE PYRAMID PROBLEM.
- 6§ 1. THE GROUND PLAN OF THE GIZEH GROUP.
- 7Plan Ratios connected into Natural Numbers.
- 8§ 2. THE ORIGINAL CUBIT MEASURE OF THE GIZEH GROUP.
- 9§ 3. THE EXACT MEASURE OF THE BASES OF THE PYRAMIDS.
- 10§ 4. THE SLOPES, RATIOS, AND ANGLES OF THE THREE PRINCIPAL PYRAMIDS OF THE GIZEH GROUP.
- 11§ 5. THE EXACT DIMENSIONS OF THE PYRAMIDS.
- 12§ 6. GEOMETRICAL PECULIARITIES OF THE PYRAMIDS.
- 13§ 6A. THE CASING STONES OF THE PYRAMIDS.
- 14§ 7. PECULIARITIES OF THE TRIANGLES 3, 4, 5, AND 20, 21, 29.
- 15§ 8. GENERAL OBSERVATIONS.
- 16§ 9. THE PYRAMIDS OF EGYPT, THE THEODOLITES OF THE EGYPTIAN LAND SURVEYORS.
- 17§ 10. HOW THE PYRAMIDS WERE MADE USE OF.
- 18§ 11. DESCRIPTION OF THE ANCIENT PORTABLE SURVEY INSTRUMENT.
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