The Great Pyramid (1859), Taylor argued that the numbers pi and the golden ratio may have been deliberately incorporated into the design of the Great Pyramid of Khufu at Giza. His theories in pyramidology were then expanded by Charles Piazzi Smyth. His 1864 book The Battle of the Standards was a campaign against the adoption of the metric system in Britain, and relied on results from his earlier book to show a divine origin for the British units of measure. According to Bernard Lightman, these two publications are strongly linked. He says: "Taylor and his disciples urged that the dimensions of the Pyramid showed the divine origin of the British units of length." Family His brother, James Taylor (1788–1863), banker of Bakewell in Derbyshire, published a number of articles on bimetallism. See also Pyramid inch References Further reading Blunden, Edmund. Keats's Publisher: A Memoir Of John Taylor (1781-1864). London, Jonathan Cape, 1936. Chilcott, Tim. A Publisher and His Circle: The Life and Work of John Taylor, Keats's Publisher. London and Boston, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1972. External links Stray, Chris (1996). John Taylor and Locke’s Classical System. Retrieved October 19, 2005. Publications by Taylor and Hessey at the Internet Archive Taylor, John (1781-1864) Publisher at the National Archives, London John Taylor, publishers at the National Archives, London John Taylor and James Augustus Hessey at the National Archives, London 1781 births 1864 deaths People from Retford Publishers (people) from London English booksellers People educated at King Edward VI Grammar School, Retford People educated at Lincoln Grammar School Pyramidologists Victorian writers 19th-century English writers 19th-century writers on archaeological subjects English male writers 19th-century British businesspeople