The lost solar system of the ancients discovered (1856)
Wilson, John, writer in astronomy · London Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, & Roberts · leaf 193
-ing erected on it. The length of a first-rate ship of war of120 guns is about 205 feet (or two fifths of that of Trajansfloating palace), and the breadth 53 feet, being less thanone-fifth the dimensions of the bark. This floating palace has recently been raised up; thetimbers, which were of… … ii Fig. 57. sides, ab, DC, also equal. The greater square equals the OBELISKS. 181 square of the greater side, and the less square the square ofthe less side. The following calculations are made for two square obelisks,one having the square of the greater side greater than thebase of the obelisk;…
Building -- History · Pyramids -- Curiosa and miscellany · Sepulchral monuments
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