2002-03-09 About 20 years ago or so, I bought a book through a book club called: The Great Pyramid by Piazzi Smyth originally published in 1880. If I would have known ahead of time that 50 % of the contents was an attack on the "French Metrical System", I would never had bought it. This guy tried to prove that the British measures were imbedded in the design of the pyramid. That the ancient Egyptians used inches, and even the same inches used in Britain. And if I remember correctly, even had a temperature scale similar to Fahrenheit. The difference being that the zero point was the freezing point and boiling point of water was at 250.
This Piazzi Smyth lived in Edinburgh, exactly where Vivian Linacre lives today. I wonder if they are related, or if there is some connection between the two. Real freaky! John ----- Original Message ----- From: "Han Maenen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, 2002-03-08 14:44 Subject: [USMA:18623] Re: Even astrologers are at it now!! > As astrology is bizarre in its own right, a stupid and ridiculous > superstition from Babylonian times, this trash is exactly what I would > expect from astrologers. Astrology is nonsense and astrologers spout nothing > but nonsense. It is clear that this astrologer is a member of the BWMA, good > company indeed, all crackpots. > There were also the ideologies of Pyramidology and British Israel which > ascribed sacred qualities to ifp and which condemned the metric system as > ungodly. I recognize these ideologies in this text, > > Han > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Stephen Davis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Friday, 2002-03-08 00:42 > Subject: [USMA:18612] Even astrologers are at it now!! > > > > This, quite bizarrely, was in the astrology column of the Daily Mirror!! > It was written by a certain John Michell: > > > It is a tragedy to lose something, or someone, and only then realise how > much you valued them. > > It happens all the time in love. And it is happening now, as we are forced > to part company with our most ancient and precious possession - our units of > measure, the foot, mile, acre, and so on. > > > It is now known that our present British units were the standards behind > all other measures in the ancient world. > > For example, 24 British miles equals 25 of the classical Greek miles. > > This gives you the exact value of the Greek mile and of its 5,000th > part-the Greek foot-by which the Parthenon was built. > > All these traditional units-Roman, Egyptian, Sumerian and others-are > related to each other by simple ratios. It was all one system, universally. > Even across the Atlantic, the Mexican pyramids were designed by the same > units of measure as those of Egypt. > > The ancient units were fractions of the Earth's dimensions. One standard > was its mean circumference, which was equal to a tenth part of 12 x 12 x 12 > x 12 x 12 English miles. When the French tried to measure the Earth in > order to establish their metre, they got it wrong - and their system is > based on error. > > There is nothing political about this. (hmmmm) It plays no serious part in > the debate over Europe and the euro. It's just that our units are sacred in > origin. > > They measure the universe and the human body by the same standard, whereas > the metre has no natural meaning. That is why we traditionalists say, > "Stand up for the foot!" > > A vigorous campaign to preserve our measures is run by Vivian Lineacre of > the British Weights and Measures Association. > > A year's membership of the association (including subscription to the > Journal) is £10 to BWMA, 45 Montgomery Street, Edinburgh, EH7 5JX. > > Regards, > > Steve. > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
