| Bibliography - 1737 - 490 pages
...Pyramids in Egypt. With a great many Additions and Alterations, from a Copy correSted by the Author. II. A Difcourfe of the Roman Foot, and Denarius ; from...whence, as from two Principles, the Meafures and Weights ufed by the Ancients may be deduced. III. Dracts upon various Subjects. Letters, Poems, and Obfervations... | |
| John Greaves - 1737 - 472 pages
...this fuppofition it mould be ? be 728 divided by 400." In 1 647, Mr. Greaves publifh'd his Difcourje of the Roman Foot and Denarius : from whence, as from two principles, the meafures and weights ufed by the ancients may be deduced. Dr. Edward Bernard, .profefibr of aflronomy at Oxford, in his... | |
| Library company of Philadelphia - 1770 - 438 pages
...Pyramidographia ; oradefcription of the pyramids ia Egypt, with a great manf additions and alterations, from a copy corrected by the author. 2. A difcourfe of the...denarius ; from whence as from two principles,, the meafur» and weights ufed by the Ancients may be deduced. 3. Trails upon various fubjecls, letters,... | |
| John Aikin - Biography - 1803 - 646 pages
...of observation ; and in the following year he published his very valuable and learned " Discourse on the Roman Foot and Denarius ; from whence, as from two Principles, the Measures and Weights used by the Ancients may be reduced," 8vo. "While he was thus spreading his fame... | |
| Frederick Robert Augustus Glover - Clergy - 1840 - 346 pages
...same in French. Paris. fol. 1663. See also Churchill's Voyages. Vol. ii. p. 689. 1708 A Discourse on the Roman Foot and Denarius ; from whence, as from two principles, the Measures and Weights used by the Ancients may be deduced. Loud. 8vo. 1647. The same. See Churchill's... | |
| William Thomas Lowndes - 1859 - 318 pages
...3s. Reprinted in the second volume of the Churchill Collection of Voyages and Travels. A Discourse of the Roman Foot and Denarius ; from whence, as from two Principles, the Measures and Weights used by the Ancients may be deduced. Lond. 1647, 8vo. Reprinted in the second... | |
| William Thomas Lowndes - English literature - 1859 - 326 pages
...3s. Reprinted in the second volume of the Churchill Collection of Voyages and Travels. A Discourse of the Roman Foot and Denarius : from whence, as from two Principles, the Measures and Weights used by the Ancients may be deduced. Lond. 1647, 8vo. Reprinted in the second... | |
| Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain). Library - Geography - 1865 - 558 pages
...Columbus. Greaves, John. Pyrarnidogruphia ; or a Description of the Pyramids of Egypt. • - Discourse of the Roman Foot and Denarius, from whence, as from two principles, the Measures and Weights used by the Ancients may be deduced. Borri, RF Chr. Account of Cochinchina, in... | |
| Royal geographical society libr - 1865 - 556 pages
...DF Columbus. Greaves, John. Pyramidographia ; or a Description of the Pyramids of Egypt. Discourse of the Roman Foot and Denarius, from whence, as from two principles, the Measures and Weights used by the Ancients may be deduced. Borri, RF Chr. Account of Cochinchina, in... | |
| Charles Knight - Biography - 1867 - 514 pages
...1652. Mr. Greaves paid much attention to weights and measures, and published in 1647 a ' Discourse on the Roman Foot and Denarius, from whence, as from two Principles, the Measures and Weights used by the Ancients may be deduced." The bulk of his works relates to Oriental... | |
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