 Russian is the sagene, more than twice as long. Capt. PIAZZI SMYTH almost fanatically attaches himself to the inch, a measure which he believes with implicit faith to have been divinely given to CHEOPS, builder of the great pyramid, and again to MOSES...  The Metric System of Weights and Measures - Seite 44von John Pickering Putnam - 1874 - 65 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | FREDERICK A.P. BERNARD, S.T.D., I.I.D., - 1872 - 200 Seiten
...implicit faith to have been divinely given to CHEOPS, builder of the great pyramid, and again to MOSES in the wilderness ; and in what he, no doubt, regards...largest dimensions. But it is also said that there are Ihings to be measured in the common affairs of life that are less than a metre. I should suppose so.... | |
 | Frederick Augustus Porter Barnard - 1872 - 210 Seiten
...implicit faith to have been divinely given to CHEOPS, builder of the great pyramid, and again to MOSES in the wilderness ; and in what he, no doubt, regards...largest dimensions. But it is also said that there are Ihings to be measured in the common affairs of life that are less than a metre. I should suppose so.... | |
 | Frederick Augustus Porter Barnard - 1872 - 208 Seiten
...life, he uses no other to express the largest dimensions. But it is also said that there are Ihings to be measured in the common affairs of life that are less than a metre. I should suppose so. There are likewise many things to be measured, less than a foot, or an... | |
 | Charles Piazzi Smyth - 1874 - 618 Seiten
...implicit 1'iith to hare been divinely given to Cheops, builder of the Great Pyramid, and again to Moses in the wilderness; and in what he, no doubt, regards as the great work of his life, he uses no other term to txpress the largest dimensions." I can only therefore refer my readers to all that 1 have written... | |
 | Charles Piazzi Smyth - 1874 - 598 Seiten
...implicit f.iith to hare been divinely given to Cheops, builder of the Great Pyramid, and ai;ain to Moses in the wilderness; and in what he, no doubt, regards as the great work of his life, ho use* no other term to express the largest dimensions." I can only therefore refer my readers to... | |
 | Charles Piazzi Smyth - 1880 - 752 Seiten
...implicit faith to have been divinely given to Cheops, builder of the Great Pyramid, and again to Moses in the wilderness ; and in what he, no doubt, regards as the great work of his life, he uses no other term to express the largest dimensions." I can only, therefore, refer my readers to all that I have... | |
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