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The lost solar system of the ancients discovered

Wilson, John, writer in astronomy · 1856 · London Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, & Roberts · 4 pictures

A two-volume speculative treatise by John Wilson, published in London by Longman in 1856, arguing that Egyptian pyramids and ancient monuments encoded a forgotten model of the solar system for antiquarian and astronomical readers. The plates are bare line diagrams: concentric numbered orbit rings and triangulated pyramid sections labelled with measurements, useful as geometric schematics, circle sequences, and technical annotation.

Building -- History · Pyramids -- Curiosa and miscellany · Sepulchral monuments

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