ABSTRACT
In its geographical position—30° N. latitude, and 31° E. longitude—the Great Pyramid stands exactly at the centre of the land surface of the earth, a fact first noted by Professor Piazzi Smyth, then Astronomer Royal for Scotland, during his survey of the Pyramid in the winter of 1864–5. The meridian of the Great Pyramid, therefore, is the natural zero of longitude for the whole globe, and the most suitable for reckoning from by all nations. If a line be drawn from the North Pole to the centre of the earth, and from both to the latitude of the Great Pyramid, an equilateral triangle will be formed, assuming, of course, that the earth is a perfect sphere. The foregoing conception of the Great Pyramid as a “pedestal to the sun”, with the idea of Osiris, as that luminary, descending into the tomb at nightfall, is borne out by the Ritual.
