A Poor Man's Photography at the Great Pyramid in the Year 1865H. Greenwood, 1870 - 62 páginas |
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actually different Aiton and Inglis Alee Dobree Alpha Draconis ancient builders APPENDIX Arabs astronomer Athenæum base-side measure camera casing-stones coalition Colonel Howard Vyse's Colonel Sir Henry Daily Review difficulty to base-side Director-General east-north-east azimuth trench Edinburgh Photographic Society Egyptian entrance passage error exhibited feet fiducial four sides four sockets greatest living authorities ground in front heap Hecatompedon Howard Vyse James's Jeezeh Pyramids John Taylor King Shafre's tomb King's Chamber magnesium light magnifying map of Jerusalem masonry Messrs minute of angle negative Nilometer north-east foot north-west socket numbers Ordnance Survey Penrose photozincograph poor man's POSITIVE COPYING primeval Professor Piazzi Smyth published Pyra Pyramid after excavation Pyramid base-side Pyramid hill Pyramid measures Pyramid of Egypt Pyramidology question of measurement result Royal Engineers sacred cubit says scientific Second Pyramid Sir Henry James Sir John Herschel socket to socket south-west foot stereoscopic stones theory Third Pyramid Thomas Maclear vertical WILLIAM PETRIE
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Página 21 - Reference to the Instructions recently issued by the Science and Art Department. 3oth Thousand, revised. Crown 8vo, 1s. 6d. Facts and Dates ; or, the Leading Events in Sacred and Profane History, and the Principal Facts in the various Physical Sciences. The Memory being aided throughout by a Simple and Natural Method. For Schools and Private Reference.
Página 37 - They were quite perfect, had been hewn into the required angle before " they were built in, and had then been polished down to one uniform sur" face ; the joints were scarcely perceptible, and not wider than the thickness
Página 15 - ... very little negatives brought home modestly in his waistcoat pocket [the impecunious photographer] sits him down at a table, having a compound achromatic microscope before him. . . and then. . . wanders at will, truly the monarch of all he surveys, over the various parts of each picture; recalls the circumstances under which it was taken ; discovers characteristic detail which he never dreamed of before ; and then - each picture you will remember having been taken square - he decides whether...
Página 37 - ... face ; the joints were scarcely perceptible, and not wider than the thickness " of silver paper : and such is the tenacity of the cement with which they " are held together, that a fragment of one, that has been destroyed, " remained firmly fixed in its original alignement, notwithstanding the lapse " of time and the violence to which it had been exposed. The pavement " beyond the line of the building was well laid, and beautifully finished ; but " beneath the edifice it was worked with even...
Página 11 - Sir Henry James kindly sent me his pamphlet in which the subject was mentioned, and I found that my measurements were quoted, a,nd as these were not the finally concluded results, but taken from a statement made by me in progress of my examination, I thought it best to send him what I thought was a correction — though a minute one.
Página 15 - Pyramid with his photographs, and had made sixty positive transparencies for the purpose, but the cost of reproducing them was so great that he abandoned the plan and gave them away. Piazzi Smyth argued that his system had the advantage not only of portability, but also of flexibility: with his little box of very little negatives brought home modestly in his waistcoat pocket [the impecunious photographer] sits him down at a table, having a compound achromatic microscope before him . . . and then...
Página 22 - Primeval and Later Guidance and Inspiration from Heaven. By the Rev. JOSEPH TAYLOR GOODSIR, FRSE Part First of an Apologetic series, and a sketch of an Evangelic preparation.
Página 10 - James, of no part of his responsibility that he went voluntarily to some source , ( on the Continent, either pure or impure, picked up there certain ' anti-British and even heathenish notions, and wilfully engraved them, and them only, to the serious misleading of the public and the discredit of the Palestine Exploration Association, on their or his so-called Ordnance map of Jerusalem.
Página 15 - Smyth, sufficiently establish the fact that these three pyramids had the same proportions ; but there are people who " cannot see the' forest for the trees," and who would measure the height and girth of every single tree to find the area of the forest.
Página 13 - ... application of photography to the study of mental disorders was presented to the Royal Society and published in the photographic journals.24 Charles Piazzi Smyth, Astronomer Royal for Scotland, championed photography as a tool for astronomical, archaeological, and natural history purposes, and asked, "what monumental research of the present age can be effectively treated without its marvellous aid?"25 20 Quoted in Michel F. Braive, The Photograph: A Social History, David Britt, trans. (London,...