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{{Short description|Ancient Egyptian unit of measurement}} [[File:seked.svg|thumb|300px|right|Illustration of the ancient Egyptian measure of Seked compared with the slope of the [[Great Pyramid of Giza|Gre ...

...it influenced the development of mathematics, geography, and the calendar; Egyptian geometry advanced due to the practice of land measurement “because the over ...he [[Rhind Mathematical Papyrus]] (RMP). The examples demonstrate that the ancient Egyptians knew how to compute areas of several geometric shapes and the vol ...

...uilt in a [[serpentine shape]] with alternating curves, originally used in Ancient Egypt, but also typically found in [[Suffolk]] in [[England]].<ref name="TJ ...</ref> Other examples exist at [[Tel el-Retaba]]<ref>{{cite journal|title= Egyptian Mission Rescue Excavations in Tell el-Retaba. Part 1: New Kingdom Remains|j ...

A rational approximation to this square was used by ancient Egyptian engineers. They even had names of special units for the diagonal and side ...|title=Infinite Measure: Learning to Design in Geometric Harmony with Art, Architecture, and Nature |date=2013 |publisher=George F Thompson Publishing |isbn=978-1- ...

...xistence or first known written account either partially or entirely to an Egyptian person. == Ancient Egypt == ...

...orld, geometry has applications in almost all sciences, and also in art, [[architecture]], and other activities that are related to graphics.<ref name="Meyer2006"> ...998 |title=Gnomons at Meroë and Early Trigonometry |journal=The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology |volume=84 |pages=171–180 |doi=10.2307/3822211 |jstor=3822211}} ...

...similar method.<ref>{{cite book|author=Otto Neugebauer |title=A history of ancient mathematical astronomy. 1 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vO5FCVIxz2 ...pendix 1: Hipparchus's Table of Chords"}} In the 2nd century AD, the Greco-Egyptian astronomer [[Ptolemy]] (from Alexandria, Egypt) constructed detailed trigon ...

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...me into existence through a gigantic endeavor to acquire and translate the ancient sciences of the Greeks between the eighth and ninth centuries. The translat ...ks of antiquity that might otherwise have been lost were translated from [[Ancient Greece|Greek]], [[Syriac language|Syriac]], [[Middle Persian]], and [[Sansk ...

...isive role in the composition and structuring of the painting. Unlike in [[architecture]] and [[sculpture]], where light is real, the light of the surrounding spac ...[[gum arabic]] or honey, using the white of the paper itself. Known since ancient Egypt, it has been a technique used throughout the ages, although with more ...