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| Stop trying to cheat on your test anyway rope stretchers used a lot of ropes and stretched a lot of ropes why are you searching this up anyway like who is searching up rope stretcher | |||
| In ], a '''rope stretcher''' (or '''harpedonaptai''') was a ] who ] ] demarcations and ] using ]s, stretched so the rope did not sag. The practice is depicted in tomb paintings of the ].<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/?id=n-4eWtgEXjoC&pg=PT282 |page=282 |title=Evidence and Procedures for Boundary Location |isbn=9780470901601 |last1=Robillard |first1=Walter G. |last2=Wilson |first2=Donald A. |last3=Brown |first3=Curtis M. |last4=Eldridge |first4=Winfield |date=31 January 2011 }}</ref> Rope stretchers used ] and the ],<ref></ref> which are still in use by modern surveyors. | |||
| The commissioning of a new sacred building was a solemn occasion in which pharaohs and other high-ranking officials personally stretched ropes to define the foundation. This important ceremony, and therefore rope-stretching itself, are attested over 3000 years from the ] to the ].<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/?id=fWKYBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA98 |page=98 |title=Architecture and Mathematics from Antiquity to the Future: Volume I: Antiquity to the 1500s |isbn=9783319001371 |last1=Williams |first1=Kim|author1-link=Kim Williams (architect) |last2=Ostwald |first2=Michael J. |date=9 February 2015 }}</ref> | |||
| Rope stretching technology spread to ] and ], where it stimulated the development of ] and ]. | |||
| == See also == | |||
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| * {{cite book |first=Alistair |last=Macintosh Wilson |url=https://books.google.com/?id=nh7rwAEACAAJ |title=The Infinite in the Finite |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=1995 |isbn=9780198539506 }} | |||
| * ''The New Encyclopædia Britannica,'' Encyclopædia Britannica 1974 | |||
| * James Henry Breasted Ancient Records of Egypt, Part Two, Chicago 1906 | |||
| * Joel F. PAULSON, "Surveying in Ancient Egypt,", ] Working Week 2005 and ]-8, Cairo, Egypt April 16-21, 2005. | |||
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| * "The knowledge of pleasing proportions of the rope stretchers was incorporated by the Greeks" | |||
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