The Main Entrance to the World Botanical Gardens is lined with Royal Palms, native to Cuba and Florida, but long since introduced to Hawaii. These stately palms grow with a clean, columnar trunk, which takes on a dull gray appearance. and they look similar to classical Doric columns from Greece. Each side of the main entry avenue is lined with 25 Palms in a double row, a dozen palms in each row and the odd 25th palm offset at the entrance. A pedestrian walkway runs down the middle of each double row. The spacing of the Palms uses a unique system of measurement - neither the common English system (inches, feet, miles) nor the common metric system (centimeters and meters), but rather a system which predates both of those systems. and which was lost to civilization thousands of years ago, only to be rediscovered in the 19th century during a systematic evaluation of the mathematics of the Great Pyramid in the Giza plateau in Egypt. Just as the French developed the Metric system shortly after the French Revolution, when they took the distance from the North-Pole to the Equator. along the curve of the Earth's surface, and subdivided that distance into ten million equal parts, which they called one meter (about 39 inches). so too did the Egyptians of nearly 5000 years ago, during the age when the Great Pyramid was erected as the only pyramid on the Giza plateau. utilize Earth's dimensions to formulate a measurement system. The Egyptians took the distance from the North-Pole to the Center-of-the-Earth, and subdivided that distance into ten million equal parts, which for lack of a better term may be referred to as a "scientific-cubit" (about 25.0265 inches), not to be confused with another System of measurement which was also in use in Egypt, the familiar royal cubit (about 20.61 inches). To make a smaller unit, they divided the scientific-cubit into 25 smaller pieces (each about 1.00106 inches). Since this is so close to the American/British inch, it may be called a "scientific inch." Each row of a dozen Royal Palms are spaced at a distance of 25 scientific-cubits apart, with the spacing between the double rows being 5 scientific cubits, likewise, the 25 palms on the left side are spaced 25 scientific cubits apart from the 25 palms on the right side. Thus, the world's newest scienticially organized botanical gardens also incorporates the oldest scientifically derived measuring system! Click here to continue reading about the scientific cubit.

 

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