EGYPT - PYRAMIDOLOGY Engraving of the Great Pyramid by John Greaves, and Oxford University professor, who had measured the Pyramid of Gizah with Burattini, in 1639. The proportion of his design was very accurate, even though Greaves did not represent all the 202 remaining courses in the historic pyramid (see entire engraving, on next page). It is, of course, the truncated top that is of interest to us here. It had also interested Greaves, who wrote, in a spelling so representative of the 17th century, that the great structure,' ends not in a point, as Mathematicall Pyramids doe, but in
EGYPT - PYRAMIDOLOGY Engraving of the Great Pyramid by John Greaves, and Oxford University professor, who had measured the Pyramid of Gizah with Burattini, in 1639. The proportion of his design was very accurate, even though Greaves did not represent all the 202 remaining courses in the historic pyramid (see entire engraving, on next page). It is, of course, the truncated top that is of interest to us here. It had also interested Greaves, who wrote, in a spelling so representative of the 17th century, that the great structure,' ends not in a point, as Mathematicall Pyramids doe, but in a litle flat, or squareà 9 feet in bredth at the top.' There is much evidence to suggest that this drawing influenced the American's who designed the truncated pyramid for the Great Seal of America. The top thirteen courses of Greaves pyramid resembles closely the thirteen-levelled truncated pyramid that first appeared on the designs for the reverse of the Great Seal, and which are now incorporated in to the roundel on the Dollar Bill. Fold-out sheet from John Greaves, Pyramidographia, 1639.
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