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Libra Esoterica

The origin and antiquity of our English weights and measures discover'd. By their near agreement with such standards that are now found in one of the Egyptian pyramids. Together with the explanation of divers lines therein heretofore measur'd

by John Greaves

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  • 18th century
  • Language: English
  • Content type: Primary source
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4 unnumbered leaves, 92 pages : (12mo)

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Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Pyramids, ancient engineering, and sacred architecture.

  • Pyramids, ancient engineering, and sacred architecture

    Controlled discovery queries from internet-archive, openlibrary-historical, and wellcome matched “Pyramids” and “pyramids”. Retained metadata contains “Pyramids” in the title, “Pyramids” in the subject metadata, and “Pyramids” in the edition title.

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    • “Pyramids”· in subject
    • “Pyramids”· in edition title

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4 unnumbered leaves, 92 pages : 1 illustration ; (12mo)

1745London : W. Payne and W. Bathoe; W. Payne and W. BathoeEnglish—Public

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  • Contributing institution: Wellcome Library
  • Digitization sponsor: Wellcome Library
  • Discovery required Internet Archive search metadata to report a PDF format; the exact direct-file URL is added only after the item's file listing confirms an unrestricted PDF filename.
  • Internet Archive institutional collection: europeanlibraries; medicalheritagelibrary; wellcomelibrary
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  • Source-reported rights: <a href="http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/" rel="ugc nofollow">This work is available under the Creative Commons, Public Domain Mark</a>
  • Source-reported rights: This work is available under the Creative Commons, Public Domain Mark
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openlibrary-work:OL28950626W
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