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!
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