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Shipping --- Ancient history --- Archeology --- Khufu [King of Egypt] --- Egypt --- Giza --- Ships --- Royal Ship of Cheops --- Archaeology & reconstruction --- Antiquities. --- Archaeology & reconstruction. --- Ships, Wooden --- Wooden ships --- Naval architecture --- Wood --- Religious aspects --- Cheops, --- Kheops, --- Khufu, --- Khoufou, --- Khnemkhufu, --- Khuefuwi-Khnum, --- Khnum-khufui, --- Keops, --- Khnum-Khufu, --- Χέοψ, --- Suphis, --- Σούφις, --- Souphis, --- Sofe, --- Σόφε, --- Sophe, --- Saurid, --- Salhuk, --- Choefoe, --- خوفو، --- Хеопс, --- C'houfou, --- Chufu, --- Hufu, --- Cúfú, --- Queops, --- 쿠푸, --- Kupu, --- Kufu, --- Cheope, --- Heopss, --- Cheopsas, --- Хуфу, --- クフ, --- Khofo, --- Кеопс, --- 胡夫, --- Tomb. --- Royal Ship of Cheops. --- Cheops (Ship) --- Khufu (Ship) --- Great Pyramid (Egypt) --- Civilization --- Religion. --- Religious aspects.

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Comment, face à l'accomplissement de la grande pyramide, ne pas s'interroger sur les moyens de sa mise en œuvre par une société de cultivateurs, de pêcheurs et de chasseurs qui édifia l'une des plus incroyables entreprises de tous les temps ? Comment s'étonner que, depuis deux siècles, archéologues, architectes, ingénieurs, visionnaires aient rivalisé d'imagination pour, chacun, imposer " la " solution ? Cet essai part des spécificités du chantier, des problèmes impossibles à esquiver, pour aboutir au monument parfait.

Great Pyramid (Egypt) --- Pyramids --- Design and construction --- Cheops, Pyramid of (Egypt) --- Giza, Great Pyramid of (Egypt) --- Great Pyramid (Jizah, Egypt) --- Great Pyramid of Giza (Egypt) --- Khufu, Pyramid of (Egypt) --- Pyramid of Cheops (Egypt) --- Pyramid of Khufu (Egypt) --- Pyramids of Giza (Egypt) --- Pyramids - Egypt - Design and construction

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Charles Piazzi Smyth was appointed to the post of Astronomer Royal for Scotland and Regius Professor of Astronomy at Edinburgh University in 1846. He was respected for his practical work, and his Teneriffe, an Astronomer's Experiment is also reissued in this series. However, this book, first published in 1864, is testimony to the author's interest in 'pyramidology', and although it was so popular in his own lifetime that it was reprinted five times, his eccentric interpretation of the data he had collected by measuring all aspects of the Great Pyramid of Giza damaged his scientific reputation. Smyth was convinced that the British measurement standard of an inch as a basic unit of length was associated with the sacred cubit of the Bible. This measure was supposedly incorporated in the Pyramid, which he claimed was built under divine guidance by the Ancient Israelites, and enshrined scientific information.

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A pioneering Egyptologist, Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie (1853-1942) excavated over fifty sites and trained a generation of archaeologists. In 1880 he began the first ever systematic survey of the Giza Plateau, with perhaps his most important work being on the Great Pyramid. Theories abounded as to how the Great Pyramid had been constructed, yet few were based on close examination of the structure itself. Petrie's findings, still used as a reference today, enabled him to disprove prominent theories, such as the belief of Charles Piazzi Smyth that the Great Pyramid was a product of divine revelation and therefore flawless. This first edition of 1883 was not reprinted, and subsequent editions summarised some of the material. Petrie wrote prolifically throughout his long career, and many of his other publications are also reissued in this series.

Pyramids of Giza (Egypt) --- Great Pyramid (Egypt) --- Temples --- Jīzah (Egypt) --- Antiquities. --- Architecture --- Church architecture --- Religious institutions --- Cheops, Pyramid of (Egypt) --- Giza, Great Pyramid of (Egypt) --- Great Pyramid (Jizah, Egypt) --- Great Pyramid of Giza (Egypt) --- Khufu, Pyramid of (Egypt) --- Pyramid of Cheops (Egypt) --- Pyramid of Khufu (Egypt) --- Pyramids --- Ahrāmāt al-Jīzah (Egypt) --- Giza Pyramids (Egypt) --- Gizeh Pyramids (Egypt) --- Pyramids of Gizeh (Egypt) --- Seven Wonders of the World --- Giza --- Ghizeh (Egypt) --- Gizeh (Egypt) --- Ghiseh (Egypt) --- Guizeh (Egypt) --- Giza (Egypt) --- Al Jīzah (Egypt) --- El Giza (Egypt) --- Gizah (Egypt) --- El Gizeh (Egypt) --- Giseh (Egypt) --- Religious architecture

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In this book Egyptian Archeology  and Mathematics meet. The author is an expert in theories and applications in Solid Mechanics and Inverse Problems, a former professor at Ecole Polytechnique and now works with Electricité de France on maintenance operations on nuclear power plants. In the Autumn of 1986, after the end of the operation on the King’s chamber conducted under the Technological and Scientific Sponsorship of EDF, to locate a cavity, he was called to solve a mathematical inverse problem, to find the unknown tomb of the King and the density structure of the whole pyramid based on measurements of microgravity made inside and outside of the pyramid. This book recounts the various search operations on the pyramid of Cheops made at the request of the Egyptian and French authorities in 1986-1987. After the premature end of the Cheops operation in the Autumn of 1986, following the fiasco of unsuccessful drillings in the area suspected by both architects G. Dormion and J.P. Goidin and microgravity auscultation, EDF and CPGF (a geophysical company) teams continued their researches with measurements already made, trying this time an inversion of the Newton gravity equation for the entire pyramid and using another theoretical team led by the author. The inverse problem solution confirmed the results of auscultations, but found no cavity. However, the image of the average density at the surface of the entire pyramid forms a sort of square “spiral” probably related to the construction method. In 2000, Jean-Pierre Houdin considered the author’s results of 1988 as a confirmation of his theory of the internal ramp tunnel. Since then the author has done additional research and found that classical theories of the construction based on degrees and the particular mode of stones filling can also report the same densitogram. The book is richly illustrated with color figures. It is dotted with information concerning  Physics, Mechanics and the History of Egyptian Antiquities. The book ends with the greatest mystery of the pyramid about the unknown tomb of the King and a dream to see the tomb at an unexpected place.

Fracture mechanics. --- Great Pyramid (Egypt). --- Inversion (Geophysics) --- Great Pyramid (Egypt) --- History & Archaeology --- Engineering & Applied Sciences --- Physics --- Civil & Environmental Engineering --- Physical Sciences & Mathematics --- Civil Engineering --- Applied Mathematics --- Cosmic Physics --- Regions & Countries - Africa --- Cheops, Pyramid of (Egypt) --- Giza, Great Pyramid of (Egypt) --- Great Pyramid (Jizah, Egypt) --- Great Pyramid of Giza (Egypt) --- Khufu, Pyramid of (Egypt) --- Pyramid of Cheops (Egypt) --- Pyramid of Khufu (Egypt) --- Engineering. --- Architecture. --- Mathematical optimization. --- Applied mathematics. --- Engineering mathematics. --- Archaeology. --- Appl.Mathematics/Computational Methods of Engineering. --- Optimization. --- Architectural History and Theory. --- Pyramids --- Pyramids of Giza (Egypt) --- Mathematical and Computational Engineering. --- Archeology --- Anthropology --- Auxiliary sciences of history --- History --- Antiquities --- Architecture, Western (Western countries) --- Building design --- Buildings --- Construction --- Western architecture (Western countries) --- Art --- Building --- Optimization (Mathematics) --- Optimization techniques --- Optimization theory --- Systems optimization --- Mathematical analysis --- Maxima and minima --- Operations research --- Simulation methods --- System analysis --- Engineering --- Engineering analysis --- Design and construction --- Mathematics --- Architecture, Primitive