. Life and work at the Great Pyramid during the months of January, February, March, and April, 1865 : with a discussion of the facts ascertained . E ASTERN SID G jippfWximM-^^j star TTvap rejjresejdui^, ^ for theyjr&th^j nherLd^ appecLrcuzcey of fh^ stours, they intarey crossing thiy Meridzcuv^ <tty ifvidni^JUy^ buty wh^^xMis ow th^y MfiruZiajv^ eiJAer CLdx)vC or btlow they Po\ Sj/nbots €ulopt€dy tv express Ihtiy nza^rtUiLdes or bri^Ju. OF MERIDIAN 1883 ). arnL th^ LaJztzide/ of the OrecLtiyrajrLLdyJstart/y w7u/?y Fleiitdes^ f now n^^ar th^ ZeTiiUvJ^nietth^r <Z DracOTtis, no
. Life and work at the Great Pyramid during the months of January, February, March, and April, 1865 : with a discussion of the facts ascertained . E ASTERN SID G jippfWximM-^^j star TTvap rejjresejdui^, ^ for theyjr&th^j nherLd^ appecLrcuzcey of fh^ stours, they intarey crossing thiy Meridzcuv^ <tty ifvidni^JUy^ buty wh^^xMis ow th^y MfiruZiajv^ eiJAer CLdx)vC or btlow they Po\ Sj/nbots €ulopt€dy tv express Ihtiy nza^rtUiLdes or bri^Ju. OF MERIDIAN 1883 ). arnL th^ LaJztzide/ of the OrecLtiyrajrLLdyJstart/y w7u/?y Fleiitdes^ f now n^^ar th^ ZeTiiUvJ^nietth^r <Z DracOTtis, nor ourvy^ ol/te^^ ccrciimpoJ^iyr steur Pol ?^U^s of the st^s, I.^ i 2. SECT, v.] STANDARDS OF TIME. 285 must have occurred at that moment, and been peculiar to thatdate of 2170 :— 1st, The equinoctial point, or crossing of the equator andecliptic ; and 2c?, The Pole-star, or a Draconis, must both have been on themeridian at the same instant, viz., the instant of the Pleiadesalso being on the meridian. a Draconis was indeed below the pole, but that position, com-bined with its particular polar distance of 3° 42 in 2170 ,gave it then to observers at Jeezeh, an angular altitude of 26° 18;or practically the same as the entrance passage of the GreatPyramid, and therefore in so far connecting it therewith. Plate ix. Plate IX. resembles Plate viii. precisely, in so far as it is in-tended to show, for the latitude of the Great Pyramid,
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