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Petrie, William M. Flinders
Researches on the great pyramid, or fresh connections, being a preliminary notice of some facts and a fuller statement — London, 1874

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The greater part of the facts here stated were observed by the writer and used " for
furtherance of their subjects, some time ago; some facts, such as the π proportion of
the King's Chamber, its relation to the coifer, &c, and part of the Arctic circle rela-
tions of both, were noticed three or four years ago, but owing to the subject of their
interrelations, cosmic and pyramidal, increasing and ramifying further and further,
every time that the subject was examined for final arrangement (and that has been
done four times) ; so every time the arrangement begun had to be put by, and more
extensive and enlightened views of its importance adopted in the basis of arrange-
ment.

Now, however, this subject of the Arctic motion references, is at last in fair progress to
a final form ; but as it seems possible that it may be some months before it can- be
completed, and further, as many other inquirers are working in the same directions, it
seems expedient and useful for their guidance, to point out succinctly what has already
been noticed ; especially as it might otherwise when hereafter published appear a mere
superstructure suggested by the labour of others.

These reasons have led to the publication of these results in their present form,
which though it be a form eminently unsatisfactory to those who see the farther truths
and systems which bind these facts together, may yet be useful as not requiring at
present, attention to the connexions and complex ramifications of the facts.

All details of small divergences between the amounts here connected, are omitted
as requiring much space and an appreciation of the systems connected with them, which
explain the facts, and at the same time are strongly supported in many cases by these
very divergencies.

The interrelations of the dimensions are also but seldom alluded to here, as they are
in many cases obvious, and as in general the most important connection is here stated,
so that the further interrelations, though often giving much weight to the intention of
design, are of less importance.

Many, perhaps most, of these facts were not arrived at by chance searchings for
coincidences, but by following out the clue to the arrangement given by other facts, in
short by carefully attending to, and acting on, the promethean character of the
Pyramid. This is the only method of research by which one is not troubled with
examining a host of unintentional, i.e. meaningless coincidences ; such as the mixture
of the numbers of lineal, square, and cubic quantities, which in but very few instances
can be at all considered as designed ; or another fallacy by which some recent enquirers
 
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