Measurer of All Things: John Greaves (1602-1652), the Great Pyramid, and Early Modern Metrology

John Greaves' "Pyramidographia" and his entire scientific career, situated in their wider European context, articulated the nature of early Orientalism and provided a fine entry point into a foreign world of learned practices and methods.

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Published inJournal of the history of ideas Vol. 63; no. 4; pp. 555 - 575
Main Author Shalev, Zur
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Published Philadelphia Johns Hopkins University Press 01.10.2002
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Abstract John Greaves' "Pyramidographia" and his entire scientific career, situated in their wider European context, articulated the nature of early Orientalism and provided a fine entry point into a foreign world of learned practices and methods.
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Cultural history
Egyptian civilization
Egyptology
Greaves, John (1602-52)
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History of philosophy
History of science
John Greaves
Literary criticism
Mathematics
Measurement systems
Metrology
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Orientalism
Philology
Philosophy
Renaissance art
Said, Edward
Scientists
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Weights and measures
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