It professes to connect the dimensions of the Pyramid with a system of metrology which is supposed to have left strong traces in the systems of modern times; showing the Egyptians to have had good approximate knowledge of the dimensions of the earth, and of the quadrature of the circle.
"A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II (of II)"
Augustus de Morgan
The literature on the subject of the Great Pyramid, considered from the standpoint of metrology, is extensive.
"A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II (of II)"
Augustus de Morgan