ΝΕΚΡΟΚΗΔΕΙΑ; Or,
ΝΕΚΡΟΚΗΔΕΙΑ; Or, the Art of Embalming; Wherein Is Shewn the Right of Burial, and Funeral Ceremonies, Especially That of Preserving Bodies After the Egyptian Method. Together With an Account of the Egyptian Mummies, Pyramids, Subterranean Vaults and Lamps, and Their Opinion of the Metempsychosis, the Cause of Their Embalming. As Also a Geographical Description of Egypt, the Rise and Course of the Nile, the Temper, Constitution and Physic of the Inhabitants, Their Inventions, Arts, Sciences, Stupendous Works and Sepulchres, and Other Curious Observations Any Ways Relating to the Physiology and Knowledge of This Art.
作者：Greenhill, Thomas, 1681-1740?
体例：段 章数：29
字数：590,718 来源：Project Gutenberg
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共 29 段- Mr. _Samuel Sault_
- By these two fore-going Causes of Burial appears yet a farth
- Now we must look upon Burial to be a Work enjoin’d both by t
- The want of Burial proceeds also from a Judgment of GOD, as
- _First_, It was a Custom among the _Hebrews_ to kiss the Dea
- Also the _Jews_ us’d to wrap their Dead in fine Linnen, but
- Also St. _Ambrose_, speaking of the Death of _Valentine_, sa
- _Hereditary-Sepulchres_ were such as the _Testator_ appointe
- Man the Master-Piece of the Omniscient Architect, is but lit
- This indeed may seem to some a Digression from our Subject,
- They have no other Water to drink in _Egypt_, therefore most
- _Egypt_ has not only an advantage of other Countries by the
- At _Cairo_ rages that most terrible Disease call’d by the _A
- By this means, not only the Art of _Embalming_, but likewise
- In the _Mathematics_ and _Mechanical Powers_ the _Egyptians_
- From the Ruines of this City, _Babylon_, Old _Cairo_ was rai
- Another _Library_ was afterwards erected by _Cleopatra_ in t
- Now, as to the first Invention of Things, I shall consider t
- _Diodorus Siculus_, Lib. 1. relates the Funeral Ceremonies o
- ‘Those Springs call’d by _Pliny_, _Fontes amari_, on the Sho
- Thus far of _Nitre_ according to the several Opinions of the
- The _Surgeon_, who was the chief _Embalmer_, generally direc
- These Coffins were sometimes made of _Cedar_, but most commo
- The first and fairest of the three great _Pyramids_ is scitu
- They enter these _Caves_ by an opening at top even with the
- The first Figure represents _Serapis_ sitting in a Chair, ha
- These, says _Licetus_, _Kircher_ and others, were order’d di
- Nevertheless, _Licetus_ endeavours to persuade us that a _Pa
- —— several things found included in them, 297.