Table of Contents

Preface; Introduction; 1. Methods of inductive examination; 2. Application of the doctrine of probabilities; 3. Sources of error, notes on ascertaining units, and results to be expected; 4. Egypt; 5. Babylonia, Assyria, Persia, and Syria; 6. Asia Minor and Greece; 7. Italy, Africa, and Sardinia; 8. Mediaeval Ireland and England; 9. Rude stone remains, America, India, etc.; 10. Synopsis of the inductive examination; General results; Addenda.

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This innovative 1877 work explains how monuments can be reinterpreted to determine ancient methods of linear measurement.