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

• Published in: Journal of the history of ideas Vol. 63; no. 4; pp. 555 - 575
• Main Author: Shalev, Zur
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Philadelphia Johns Hopkins University Press 01.10.2002; University of Pennsylvania Press
• Subjects: Antiquarianism; Astronomy; Cultural history; Egyptian civilization; Egyptology; Greaves, John (1602-52); History of ideas; History of philosophy; History of science; John Greaves; Literary criticism; Mathematics; Measurement systems; Metrology; Observational astronomy; Orientalism; Philology; Philosophy; Renaissance art; Said, Edward; Scientists; Travel; Weights and measures

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.