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I started with John’s brief list and
noticed that the royal Egyptian values
were out of line with measures that
they were more compatible with;
such as the Greek foot of value 1.008ft
is the unit fraction 7 to 8 of the royal
Egyptian 1.152ft. Not only was this a
more correct arrangement but the new
reduced column could be extended to
all of the national values.
Several pertinent facts concerning
metrology in general became
immediately apparent with this
rearrangement. With my vastly
increased database to that that had
been used by John, the discoveries
along the route of unit fraction
integration piled in almost as fast as
I could record them. I isolated what
were the distinct feet measures of
twelve national systems and saw that
this was a general rule and all of them
“Christ Nosh, do you realise what we have
showed the same level of integration
and the same variations in their
here? It beats hollow any discovery ever
measures.
In other words, throughout
made in any field of archaeology.”
the world the people, from remote
antiquity, had all used the identical
I am inclined to agree with him, but I
system. This terminology, Egyptian,
Greek, Roman, Assyrian, Sumerian,
Aztec, Japanese etc was redundant.
would, wouldn’t I?
All these national terms were merely
those measures the bureaucrats had
selected from a wide choice of values
was available in the very remote past. and limited reference field. Such was
to be the national standard for social
John’s Ancient Metrology is a small the man’s inspired genius that he had
regulation.
book, much important information made more headway than respected
It must date from the far mists of
packed into its slender form, including and established scholars who had
time, because in historical times these
how the measurements made sense devoted a lifetime’s work to such ends. It
disparate people were not even aware
of the dimensions of monuments such became obvious that John was correct
of each other’s existence; yet they used
as Stonehenge and the Great Pyramid. in his assumptions; it also became
the identical measurement systems.
John had barely scratched the surface obvious that his Ancient Metrology
From the long distance, or itinerary
but there the subject became stymied was merely the tip of the iceberg. After
measures of leagues and miles, the
for around twelve years. wearing out a few calculators, when the
intermediary furlongs and stadia, the
subject began to crack it all unfolded
standard modules of fathoms, paces,
Click here for related Geodetic Data with heart stopping suddenness. It
yards, cubits and feet right down to
was like seeing glory, waking up with a
the sub divisions of digits and inches,
When I researched the matter, with precious jewel, looking straight into the
exactly the same methodology. From
slowly increasing intensity over these holy of holies at the heart of the temple.
the early days of John’s researches he
intervening years, I was struck by the It was as though John had found the
said to me of these cultural similarities:
way in which John had reached his key to the door and with his customary
“They had perfected standardisation of
conclusions from such a small database good manners let me enter first.
culture which enabled them to endure
avantoure
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