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pyramid, which only differed from the British inch very slightly.
He is essentially credited with being one of the founders of
modern Pyramidology, but his ideas would probably not have
caught on were it not for the work of Professor C. Piazzi Smyth.
Smyth built on Taylor's ideas. Though Taylor had not traveled to
Egypt, Smyth did, and set about measuring every minute detail of
Khufu's monument.

Smyth attempted to connect the measurements he made of
the pyramid to many different natural aspects of the world and
our universe, to the point were even many of his contemporaries
thought him ludicrous. Smyth nevertheless though that the
number relationships he derived from the pyramid were a record
of "perfect" standards of measurement that God intended man to
use. In reality, many of Smyth's calculations seem artificial and
arbitrary to us today. Smyth was hardly a dispassionate, objective
scientist when dealing with the pyramid. His writings shows that
he certainly had a deep emotional commitment to demonstrating
"scientifically" that the Christian religion is true, and that he saw
his work with the pyramid as a means by which he could do so.

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