The Watchtower Society and John and Morton Edgar - A2Z.org

a CjOU'EN AGEwith the circular form of the coit h e at the ddta of- the Nih He made careful dation and foundM rlmost wed; q-t, the sides being formed by- fhe hills which border the lowlands and meet near&Cairo. By cl- calculation he found the apex of the&a to be at the site of fhe Great Pyramid, aboutten miIea mnth west of Cairo. This gignutic structurertood u p the edge of a rocky cliff, or plateau, andodooked the entire Loser Egypt He was so im-dram through the Great Pyramid would cmqo motsland surface than any other line; where- ita 8nti@would touch very little land, except on the wedem par- .tion of Alaska He therefore claimed that ita lo~rtiawas by far the most suitable for the zero of longihclqas it would better suit all nations. He- further statad .that rr lafitrdinal line at the same point wodd .more land dace than at any other known paint. HWdid Shem know of such an impertant location?- -p d kt he remarked: 'That monument stands in; more important physical situation than any otherbuilding erected by man." It might well be said to bein the center and at the same time at the border ofEgypt. Twhty-five hundred years ago the prophetIsaiah wrote3 "In that day shall there be an altar inthe midst of the land of E,gypt, and a pillar at the bordmthereof to Jehovah. And it shall be for a sign andfor r witness unto Jehovah of hosts in the land of Egypt."-Isaiah 19 : 19.- --Prof- Sm* observed that a longitudinal linaSquaring the CircleNE of the fist scientific features discovered in0 the Great Pyramid was that itl height &tothe length of tao sides at the base line a 1 is to 3.14159;or, ibted otherwise, twice the height considered M 8diaeter of ;a circle is to the entire base line M the dimeterof r circle ia to its circumference. Th- tha problemof squaring the circle had been actudly worked OU~md recorded 4,000 rean q. ,About the beginning of the s w t h cenm BudolphVon Ceulen discovered the ntio d the diameter oi 8