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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