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Headword:
*gewmetri/a
Adler number: gamma,164
Translated headword: geometry
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Geometry is a science of something which can be known or assumed. For also the things of which geometry is a science are things which can be known and assumed.[1]
Egyptians invented this science, having first learned it from the immensity of the earth and the division of the lands, and then having written it down.[2]
Greek Original:*gewmetri/a. gewmetri/a e)sti\n e)pisth/mh e)pisthtou= h)\ u(polhptou=. e)pisthta\ ga\r kai\ u(polhpta\ kai\ ta\ w(=n e)stin h( gewmetri/a e)pisth/mh. tau/thn de\ th\n e)pisth/mhn e)feu=ron *ai)gu/ptioi, e)k tou= a)ple/tou th=s gh=s kai\ th=s diaire/sews tw=n xw/rwn prodidaxqe/ntes, ei)=ta kai\ suggra/yantes.
Notes:
Again at
epsilon 2626.
cf. generally
gamma 163.
[1] Alexander of
Aphrodisias,
Commentaries on Aristotle's Topica 482.14-15. Geometry can be about actual things (as when it is used to measure land) or about hypothetical things (as when deductions are made about any triangle).
[2] George the Monk,
Chronicon 1.74.7-9, cf. 48.21-23.
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 24 June 2002@19:48:14.
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