Great Pyramid: Its Secrets & Mysteries Revealed

Piazzi Smyth dedicated his life to understanding the measurements contained in the greatest building in the world, bringing out his discoveries in this 1880 edition totaling 664 pages. The subtitle says it all... "The Great Pyramid: Its Secrets and Mysteries Revealed." Unlike all the other large works of man being embellished with statements of accomplishment by the ruler, king or dictator under whose rule it was built, the accomplishment etched in stone or metal plaques, until that edifice falls into ruin, the Grear Pyramid's power to survive is totally amazing. You have to have this book in your collection as the "standard" by which to judge everything else ever written about it. Smyth was the Astronomer-Royal for all Scotland, dealing with numbers and math on a daily basis, transferred his mind and focus to understand the purpose of its being which, some say, took either 20-years or 100-years to build. He beautifully explains every measure, angle, latitude and longitude, shape, material, etc. in the easily understood language and simple math of the layman, condensed down from his 1867 3-volume work which totaled 1,653 pages. This is the 'bible in stone' from which all other researchers draw their conclusions. I advise you to get this book yourself, and draw your own conclusions. While the entire outer casing has been stripped off because of its heiroglyphic content, there are no writings of any kind in the interior of this structure - the greatest the world has ever seen. Why? Smyth answers in high detail, using his mathematical mind to explain the base measurement, circumference, height, chambers and all the ascending and descending passages to the 'Pyramid Inch.' The two main measures when built were the Egyptian Royal Cubit of 20.625" and the Pyramid Cubit of 25.000", the latter of which gives us a figure of 365.242" Pyr. Cubits for the base. This measure just happens to be the exact measure of time, to three decimal places, in its base measure. In Greek feet measure, it is an even 720' Greek feet, another sign of source measure, that has been attributed to the Greeks by Europeans 200+ years ago, but which came to our textbooks in false assumptions. There are signs that the Pyramid was built 12,000 years ago, and not 4,600 as Egyptologists still claim. You decide. Oh and I almost forgot, we can't build a building today of this magnitude, of this accuracy and intended purpose. The best recommendation I can give for any book is, when I loan it to a friend, who promises to return it on his life... and I never get it back.

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Having seen many hypothesis put forth about the greatest pyramid, popularly known as Khufu's or Cheops' pyramid, I can only say that this book does the best job by far. Smyth's researches are exacting, practical, logical, and he clearly goes as far as he possibly can in each examination to ask the question of what may have been missed.What several other researchers had done sloppily, out of lack of funds or lack of drive or simple lack of perfectionism, he explores. His resultant calculations, postulations and compilations result in what I firmly believe is the most definitive work in the scientific world of a building which, to me, is very clearly God-planned.A fascinating work!

This book is well worth a read. It is somewhat difficult to read, being written in Victorian English, but that adds to its appeal, since its literary complexity gives the reader an idea of how great minds helped science progress to what it is now. This book was long considered the authoritative text on the Great Pyramid, and it is not hard to see why. Its content is exhaustive, and a good example of "a job well done." I was pleasantly surprised to see how much mathematics, metrology, science, and Judeo-Christian (!) spiritual content exists within the Great Pyramid. Smyth, the then former Royal Astronomer of Scotland, also approaches the various points of view regarding its origin and construction very thoroughly. All in all, this book is worth the effort to read it and I would advise the reader to take his/her time (I spent 10 months on it) with it so that it can be fully enjoyed. What a challenging and neat book!

The book is an excellent work of a man dedicated to His science and religion. Even if you don't agree with Smyths summation, he still evokes one to question......What do we really know??, What if all we've been told about this one pyramid is wrong?? And What can the measurements of the great Pyramid tell us about the original builders knowledge of the world around him. His arguements are strong and yet unheard of by many.

VERY INTERESTING BUT VERY DIFFICULT TO READ. THE BOOK WAS WRITTEN IN THE LATE 1800'S. THE MATERIAL IS VERY GOOD AND INTERESTING BUT THE GRAMMATICAL STYLE, I FIND AGONIZING. I REALLY HAVE TO READ SLOWLY AND REREAD SEVERAL TIMES TO GET THE POINT OF A PARAGRAPH. THE GRAMMAR IS SO BAD IT READS LIKE SOMEONE WHO IS UNEDUCATED TRIES TO SOUND ALOOF AND SCHOLARLY. IF THE GRAMMAR WAS IMPROVED THE BOOK WOULD BE A SUBSTANTIALLY SHORTER AND MUCH MORE UNDERSTANDABLE. THE MATERIAL IS 5 STAR, THE GRAMMATICAL STYLE IS BELOW 1 STAR.HENCE THE SCORE OF 3 IS BUT THE BEST, BUT NOTWITHSTANDING THE POORNESS OF THE GRAMMAR, IS THAT IS OVERCOME BY THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE MATERIAL, THAT I FEEL I CAN MAXIMALLY POSSIBLY ASSIGN TO THIS MATERIALLY INTERESTING WORK. - AS PIAZZI SMYTH MAY HAVE STATED!!!

Excellent book