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circle to it. circnmferenm to be 1 to 3.14159. So great -ured in cubits, equal the number of day8 in f-did he consider hia dimvery that he had it recorded on years, including the atra day for the leap-yw.hh tombstone in St PMs Church9 at Leyden. Buthe war a little over 3,800 years behind tima Mstancs from Earth to SunFor a long time mathematicha had tried to b d STEONOMEBS hare eatimrted 6e distance of thmlome standard of meamma which could be adopted by A earth from the sap at betwen 91,000,000 and 93,-J1 natianr- Believing it should in some way be con- 000,000 milea Pennit us here to quob from w dnected with the earth, they m y took the distance of Passaged', Val. 1, pagf9 22 :the earth's quadrant, ffom pole to quator, and dividedit by 10,000,000. The rdt, 39.37 inchea, ase suggested 'William Petrie, father of Professor Pdrb,aa the basis for a national cubit Thh wan adopted by re%* on the fact [the E'yramid'r method of indicsttheFrench in 1799, and hater by other nation6 includ- ing the exact len,@h of the aolar year] .. connected iting the United States. This ia known re the Metria with John Taylois dixovery that the vertical heightSystem , 1' near measure.of the Great Pyramid is the length of the radius of aAfter critical and exhaustive calculationr, based upon circle the circumference of which equals the totalcomparison of many measurements and cross-measure- measnmnent of the square baoa He cam to the eonmenta,Profes~or Smyth discovend that the Great Pp-clnsion that aa the topetuneof the Pyramid, d, thhmid had a Btandard of both linear and cubic measures point of ricw, eymbo- the nun, it. vertical height .pcnliar to itself. The linear standard he found to be buld indiate in some ray the mean dietana of thoa cubit of torenty-five inches, which he called the Pyta- mi from the esrth.mid cubit Other divisions or lengths he named sim- "The problem was to find the scsla This he aacerilarly,aa the m i d inch, the Pyramid mile, etc Tlm tained to be 10 to the 9th power, M p d d y &ownPynmid inch is onethousandth part longer than the by the Great Pyramid itself; for if a meanurement bastandard British inch; in other worda, 1,000 British made from one of the corner &eta to ths central mrinchesmake 999 Pyramid inches. Applying this stand- tical axis of thin structure, and for every 10 linear feetud he was amazed at the mine of information it opened. horizontally inwards, 9 linear unib k measured nrti-The polar diameter of the earth had been found to call7 upwards, when the total horizontal aad rertiesl.be 7,899.3 British milcq or 500,500,500 British inches. meaauremcnfa are completed, the original apex of theWithout entering into the detsib here, it may be said Great Pyramid will be reached to within 2 in&-, mthat the Gr~at Pyrsmid givea the polar axis of the cording to precise messnraa That 4 the horirontalearth 600.000,000 Ppdd inchdost e d length ~ from one of the corner socketa to the center beaaequaling the 500,500,500 British inchea Dividing thu the m e proportion to the verticd height of the Pymby2, to get the polar radius, we have 250,000,000 Pyra- mid u 10 doer to 9. (6456.63 ia to 6813.01 u 10 u tomid bchea, aa the basis Dividing thir by 10,000,000 9.) Tha d e having been found, it it a 6impls calwehave 25 Pyramid inches, or a Pyramid cubit. Thin culation to 6nd how many miles us represented in th.b a better ctandard than the' one based upon the quad- nrtial height of the Pyrsmid.rant The Pyramid cubit @urea largely in the mathe"Converting the 5813.01 Pyramid inchea to Britishmatical and astronomical featurea of the Great Pyramid.inchea by dividing &ese Pyramid inchea by .999, mdNumber of Daus in Sohr PearHE exact length of the solar year is 365 days, 5T hours, 48 minutes, and 46 seconds; etated decimally,365.242 days Three hundyl and sixty-6ve day3ars usually counted as a year, but this runs the timeahead, by nearly a quarter of a day each year; and inorder t& bold it in place an extra day is added everyfourth year, called a leap-year. But this in turn is abit too much, aa it is not quite a quarter'of a day overeach year. To hold it back, only such century yeamas are divisible by 400 are counted ns leap-years. Manyrecall that the year 1900 was not a leap-year. Itwas divisiblqby 4 but not by 400.The length of each side of the Great Pyramid at thebase line is 761 feet, 8 inches, or 9,140 Rntish inches.Reduced to Pyramid inches (Deduct one inch for each3,000) it is 9,131. Divide this by 25 to reduce to Pyramidcubits, and the d t is 363.24. The four sides,multiplying thia by 10 to the 9th power [i a. 1,000,-000.000], and bing the result into British milea, hebrought out the quantity of 91,837,578 of thoa miles,or as near the maan distance of the mn from the earthur modern astmnomem can detemine."The ~pmed t ia recorded in other alculatiomTIcc Precessional CycleNOKERS recognize three main motions ofA" the earth, two very rapid and one verJ alow. Theis its rotation on its own axis every 24 h; thesecond, its revolution around the sun wery JUT; mdthird, r slow turning of its axis (and thdom of thaentire earth), m that it does not dwap pint to thepresent pie star,called Polaria (a it does very nearlynow) but deuuibes a complets but d circle amongthe atnrs in the northern hepvem in tho ~ 1 of ~ A 4Little over 25,000 yearn l'his peculiar, don and ro&