The Great Pyramid, its Divine Message: an Original Co-ordination of Historical Documents and Archölogical Evidences

Abstract

THIS elaborate work is one of the assertionist class which has spread in recent years. The pyramid theories open with many pages on the reflecting surfaces of the Great Pyramid, fixing accurately the days of the solstices and equinoxes. Now such porous limestone cannot be polished to reflect, or even to glitter; and a diffuse faint glare at best, without any definite limit, would be entirely useless to define a given day in the year, as here asserted. Then we read of the shadow on a face being only exact once in a century, and approximately every fourth year. As at that time of year the change of declination of the sun, by the shift of 0-242 day, from year to year is under 6 less than a fifth of the sun's diameter-the difference between one year and another would be imperceptible to the eye.

The Great Pyramid, its Divine Message: an Original Co-ordination of Historical Documents and Archölogical Evidences.

By D. Davidson H. Aldersmith. Vol. 1: Pyramid Records; a Narrative of new Discoveries concerning Civilisations and Origins. Pp. xxvii + 568 (70 plates). (London: Williams and Norgate, Ltd., 1924.) 25s. net.