Our Inheritance In The Great Pyramid
by: Charles Piazzi Smyth

Hardcover. London, W. Isbister & Co., Revised Ed., 1874, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brown cloth stamped in black with gilt lettering on the spine, 526 pages. New and Enlarged Edition. Frontis. and 17 plates in front section. This late 19th-century polemical study argues that the Great Pyramid of Giza encodes cosmic measurements and biblical chronology, serving as a sacred universal standard rather than a conventional Egyptian tomb. Smyth surveys base and height proportions, true-north orientation, and the King's Chamber coffer to contend that a pyramid-inch-based metrology aligns with Earth's axis, the solar year, and universal constants, while critiquing the French metre system. Drawing on archaeologists, surveyors, and biblical exegesis, the work blends archaeology, astronomy, and national-religious commentary and presents a Messianic reading that links pyramid geometry to prophetic time and to Christ. The narrative frames metrology as divinely instituted and urges British standards over continental metricization. It lays groundwork for later parts, arguing that the pyramid embodies timeless knowledge with implications for science, religion, and national destiny. Binding a little loose, but holding.