Article ID: CBB001030075

The Measure of Egypt (2004)

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The article reports on the significance of pyramid measurement. Although the measure of the pyramid remained of paramount significance during the French occupation, a sign of control over Egypt, the presentation of measure began to change. Measure in eighteenth-century travel accounts like Savary's was a self-consciously relativist practice. That is, it was part of an accumulating system of descriptions whose truths were judged with regard to one another. After 1800, a new mode of measure came to dominate in published accounts of travel in Egypt. This mode of numerical description presented claims whose truth lay in their indexical quality, that is, not in relation to previous measurements but rather, purely to the physical matter to which they referred.

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Description Looks at significance of French measurement of pyramids in the 18th century and later.


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Authors & Contributors
Rickenbacher, Martin
West-Sooby, John
DeShong, Rachel
Dai Prà, Elena
Šolar, Renata
Valentina De Santi
Concepts
Geography
Cartography
Maps; atlases
Scientific expeditions
Travel; exploration
Science and war; science and the military
Time Periods
19th century
18th century
17th century
20th century, early
16th century
Early modern
Places
Switzerland
Europe
Russia
Egypt
United States
France
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