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*)episth/mh
Adler number: epsilon,2626
Translated headword: science, understanding
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Geometry is a science of something that can be known or assumed. For also the things of which geometry is a science are things which can be known and assumed. 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.
Greek Original:*)episth/mh: o(/ti 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 xwrw=n prodidaxqe/ntes, ei)=ta kai\ suggra/yantes.
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Keywords: aetiology; chronology; definition; geography; mathematics; philosophy; science and technology
Translated by: Marcelo Boeri on 5 January 2000@17:11:06.
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