A Poor Man's Photography At The Great Pyramid, In The Year 1865 (1870)

by Charles Piazzi Smyth and Henry James

Book Overview

A Poor Man's Photography At The Great Pyramid, In The Year 1865 is a book written by Charles Piazzi Smyth and published in 1870. The book is a detailed account of Smyth's journey to Egypt in 1865 to conduct experiments and take photographs of the Great Pyramid of Giza. Smyth, a Scottish astronomer and mathematician, was interested in the pyramid's mathematical and astronomical properties and sought to measure and document them through his experiments.The...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1164543350
• ISBN13: 9781164543350
• Release Date: September 2010
• Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
• Length: 68 Pages
• Weight: 0.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"