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Measurer of All Things: John Greaves (1602-1652), the Great Pyramid, and Early Modern Metrology Zur Shalev Writing from Istanbul to Peter Turner, one of his colleagues at Merton College, Oxford, John Greaves was deeply worried: Onley I wonder that in so long time since I left England I should nei- ther have received my brasse quadrant which I left to be finished for my journey thither, nor any notice of it […]. I agreed with mr. Allen upon price and the time that he should finish it, if he hath failed me he hath done me the greatest injury that can be. A great injury indeed, because Greaves’s journey to Italy and the Levant was all about measuring—luckily the instrument did reach him at some later stage. The thirty-six-year-old Professor of Geometry at Gresham College was taking the measurements of countless monuments and objects in the locations he vis- ited. In Rome he measured, among many other ancient structures, Cestius’ Pyra- mid and St. Peter’s basilica. In Lucca, deeply impressed, he counted his paces around the beautiful city walls. In Siena he observed together with a “Math- ematical Professor” one of the Sidera Medicea using “a glass.” In Egypt
Journal of the History of Ideas – University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: Mar 11, 2003
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