[PDF] A Poor Mans Photography At The Great Pyramid In The Year 1865 eBook

Author : Charles Piazzi Smyth
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Author : Charles Piazzi Smyth
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Release : 2015-02-19
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ISBN : 9781298275936

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Author : Charles Piazzi Smyth
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ISBN : 9781436744461

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ISBN : 9781293896846

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Publisher : Forgotten Books
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Release : 2018-03-23
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ISBN : 9780365228073

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Excerpt from A Poor Man's Photography at the Great Pyramid: In the Year 1865; Compared With That of the Ordnance Survey Establishment, Subsidized by London Wealth and Under the Orders of Co; Sir Henry James, R. E., F. R. S. Director-General of the Ordnance Survey, at the Same Place Four Years Afterwards: A Discour To set forth, therefore, before the public what are the real powers for accuracy still existing in that grandest of all Primeval Monuments, the absolutely unique Great Pyramid - and in so far to rescue its present-day descriptions and modern character from the scientific disgrace just now sought to be inflicted upon it; as well as to demonstrate the service that good and faithful photography in the future may be of there - this is the chief object of the following pages. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Charles Piazzi Smyth
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
Page : 22 pages
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Release : 2013-09
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ISBN : 9781230281773

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1870 edition. Excerpt: ... APPENDIX.--I. List of positive transparencies upon glass, prepared by the author from his negatives taken in Egypt in 1865, and exhibited on thin occasion at the Edinburgh Photographic Society. Character Or Size. 1 to 12, on glasses 6-75 by 3'25 inches. 13 to 32, on glasses 10 by 8 inches. 33 to 38; on glasses 7 75 by 4"25 inches. 39 to 50, stereoscopic, each component of every pair of pictures being 2-7 inches broad by 3 25 inches high. Subjects. 1. The Valley of Egypt and the Mokattam Hills, from the Great Pyramid hill. 2. The Jeezeh Pyramids, from the hill of petrified shells. 3. A portion of the foreground of the above view highly magnified to show the shells more clearly. 4. The Great Pyramid, and the causeway from the plain on the east. 5. The Great Pyramid and the Second Pyramid, from the plain on the north-east. 6. The Artificial Esplanade on the north front of the Great Pyramid, overlooked from Desert Hills to the north-west. 7. The rubbish heap--a difficulty to base-side measurers--on the west side of the Great Pyramid, the heap being at its culminating point 600 inches high. 8. The Core Masonry at the north-east angle of the Great Pyramid. 9. Colonel Howard Vyse's hole on the south side of the Great Pyramid, and the southern rubbish heap, 680 inches high. 10. The Mark of an Egyptian visitor of the Theban Empire on the rock enclosure of the Second Pyramid. 11. What the entrance passage of King Shafre's tomb really points to; being a refutation of an assertion by M. Renan, in the Revue des Deux Mondes for April, 1865. 12. The last man, after an exciting day at the Great Pyramid. 13. The Great Pyramid, with an answer to Strabo's question as to what the builders did with the chips of all their worked stones. 14. The casing-stone...