Posted on 01/26/2007 3:09:50 PM PST by blam
And unless I'm much mistaken, an oft repeated history.
Indeed.
Fascinating stuff. Thanks, Blam!
the four so-called "air shafts", two in the King's Chamber and two in the Queen's. In each chamber, one is directed precisely to the North while the other is set precisely to the South.Actually, at least one of these air shafts (IMV, they are vent holes to let the geopolymer blocks cure) makes a sharp bend to miss another structure. None of them were visible from the chambers inside until the modern era.
Africans Invented Arithmetic and Algebra [double bagger barf alert]
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Posted on 08/30/2006 1:41:19 PM EDT by SunkenCiv
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Great pyramid entrance tunnel not astronomically aligned
William R. Corliss
Science Frontiers Online
No. 42: Nov-Dec 1985
http://www.science-frontiers.com/sf042/sf042p02.htm
Early in the Nineteenth Century, astronomer John Herschel speculated that the ancient Egyptians had constructed the Great Pyramid so that the downwardly slanting entrance would be aligned precisely with the pole star, Thuban (Alpha Draconis), when the star was at its lowest culmination. Over 70 years ago Percival Lowell ran through the calculations and found that Thuban was not near the tunnel's line of sight when the pyramid was constructed (about 2800 BC). No one seems to have listened to Lowell, even though he was quite correct. Most books on the Great Pyramid still insist on the fancied pole star alignment.
If the entrance tunnel wasn't pointing at the pole star, what other esoteric reason did the pyramid builders have for the 26°.523 angle? (It seems that everyone expects all dimensions of the Great Pyramid to have special significance.) R.L. Walker, of the Naval Observatory, has come to the rescue. He observes that the tangent of 26°.523 is almost exactly (actually 0.4991). Although there may be some occult significance to ?, this fraction also signals to us that 26°.523 is also the angle created when two cubical blocks are laid horizontally for every one installed vertically, as in the sketch. It seems that 26°.523 is simply the natural consequence of the internal pyramid construction process.
(Anonymous; "End of a Pyramid Myth," Sky and Telescope, 69:496, 1985.)
Comment. P. Lowell also showed that Thuban did cross the tunnel entrance centuries before and after the accepted date of construction. Could the date of the pyramid be in error, or were the builders planning for the future? Anything is possible in Pyramidology!
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That's not exactly true. Chuck Norris can square the circle using a ten penny nail and a #2 Eberhardt-Farber pencil.
All the assertions in this article need to be taken with a few hekats of salt.
The Egyptian calendar was 365 days long. The peoples living in Mesopotamia mastered positional astronomy to a far greater degree than anything ever acheived in Egypt. And yes, Egyptian mathematics was inductive and proscriptive, meaning it was strictly limited as to what it could achieve.
There was an article in Nature a few years ago showing that the alignment of the Pryamids of different eras drifted with the precessions of the poles, meaning that even if they "found" the celestial pole once, their alignments drifted with their guide stars.
See http://www.grahamhancock.com/forum/BauvalR1-p1.htm for a lively discussion.
Cherrypicking one good alignment in a population of 90 is not convincing evidence that they understood positional astronomy or geodesy.
The Hindus, not the Arabs created the positional number system, which was adopted by the Arabs and from them, by Europeans.
The drawback of the Babylonian base 60 system is that multiplication was laborious, each 'digit' was a number that could be as big as 59. The big advantage of our base 10 is that the multiplication table can be easily memorized, making calculations by hand rapid and accurate. (The multiplication table for base 60 would have more than 3500 entries.)
Of course you are right about base 10, it came via the Arabs from India. The Arabs get some credit for preserving much of classical mathematics and philosophy, but in reality what happened is that they conquered much of the Byzantine Empire, appropriating portions of Greek culture in the process. (The West was in decrepitude in that era, only rediscovering classical philosophy in the 12th and 13th centuries. It was in the early 12th century that decimal numbers came to Europe, popularized by Leonardo of Pisa, better known as Fibonnaci.)
I've never understood why scientists insist on claiming humandkind beyond a couple hundred years ago could barely find their rears with two hands tied behind their backs.People also forget that the modern's didn't invent most of the problems we face today. Human beings have been human beings for a very, very long time, and they've gotten quite adept at being stupid about it.
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Interesting tale about Atlantis, thanks for posting.
Muslims took baths??????????? Shouldn't this be in Breaking News?
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