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What was satire book? Gave examples of silly logic
Name in BCHF!
There are many interesting connections. George Cornewall Lewis (1806-1863) and Constantine Simonides were among those who challenged the basic Champollion and friends theory. Lewis even wrote a satirical book with the title:
Suggestions for the Application of the Egyptological Method to Modern History: Illustrated by Examples - (1862)
George Cornewall Lewis
https://books.google.com/books?id=xTa6vuRodVIC&pg=PA1
Pointed out the lack of logic in Egyptology
'Egyptology has a historical method of its own. It recognises none of the ordinary rules of evidence; the extent of its demands upon our credulity is almost unbounded. Even the writers on ancient Italian ethnology are modest and tame in their hypotheses compared with the Egyptologists. Under their potent logic all identity disappears; everything is subject to become anything but itself. Successive dynasties become contemporary dynasties; one king becomes another king, or several kings, or a fraction of another king; one name becomes another name; one number becomes another number; one place becomes another place.'
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Quoting GCL
https://www.google.com/search?sca_e...IHhEQ0pQJegQIEBAB&biw=1020&bih=658&dpr=2#ip=1
The Chronology of Bunsen
E. Burgess
https://books.google.com/books?id=WWAQAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA744
Walter Bagehut
https://books.google.com/books?id=iuV9Lhn53r4C&pg=RA2-PA247
And more
Name in BCHF!
There are many interesting connections. George Cornewall Lewis (1806-1863) and Constantine Simonides were among those who challenged the basic Champollion and friends theory. Lewis even wrote a satirical book with the title:
Suggestions for the Application of the Egyptological Method to Modern History: Illustrated by Examples - (1862)
George Cornewall Lewis
https://books.google.com/books?id=xTa6vuRodVIC&pg=PA1
Pointed out the lack of logic in Egyptology
'Egyptology has a historical method of its own. It recognises none of the ordinary rules of evidence; the extent of its demands upon our credulity is almost unbounded. Even the writers on ancient Italian ethnology are modest and tame in their hypotheses compared with the Egyptologists. Under their potent logic all identity disappears; everything is subject to become anything but itself. Successive dynasties become contemporary dynasties; one king becomes another king, or several kings, or a fraction of another king; one name becomes another name; one number becomes another number; one place becomes another place.'
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Quoting GCL
https://www.google.com/search?sca_e...IHhEQ0pQJegQIEBAB&biw=1020&bih=658&dpr=2#ip=1
The Chronology of Bunsen
E. Burgess
https://books.google.com/books?id=WWAQAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA744
Walter Bagehut
https://books.google.com/books?id=iuV9Lhn53r4C&pg=RA2-PA247
And more
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