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| In ] '''rope stretchers''' (or '''harpedonaptai''') were ] who ] ] demarcations and ] using ]s which they stretched in order to take the sag out of the rope. When performed by kings during the initial stage of temple building<ref>Wilson, ''op.cit.'', p.38</ref> the ''Stretching of the Rope'' was probably a religious ceremony rather than a surveying job.<ref>Breasted: From the Great Karnak Building Inscription (Year 24 of the reign of Thutmose III), ''op.cit.'' § 608</ref> On artefacts as ancient as the ] the Egyptians document the process the royal surveyors used to restore the boundaries of fields after each inundation or ]. | |||
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| ==History== | |||
| The first ]s to use ropes and plumbs may have been ]ian.<ref>''Encyclopædia Britannica'', op.cit.'', p.828</ref> Rope stretching technology spread to ] and ], where it stimulated the development of ] and ]. Some think that it was India which influenced Greece.<ref>Chattopadhyaya, ''op.cit.'', p.153</ref> | |||
| ==The Egyptian rope trick== | |||
| '''Rope stretchers''' used ] and the ],<ref></ref> which are still in use by modern surveyors. The plummet can be used with a square ruled off into intervals on tongue and blade to get a unit rise and run or angle when taking an elevation to a distant point as with a modern sextant. | |||
| == See also == | |||
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| ==References== | |||
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| * Alistair Macintosh Wilson, ''The Infinite in the Finite'', Oxford University Press 1995 | |||
| * Debi Prasad Chattopadhyaya, ''Environment, Evolution, and Values: Studies in Man, Society, and Science'', South Asian Publishers 1982 | |||
| * ''The New Encyclopædia Britannica,'' Encyclopædia Britannica 1974 | |||
| * James Henry Breasted Ancient Records of Egypt, Part Two, Chicago 1906 | |||
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| * "The knowledge of pleasing proportions of the rope stretchers was incorporated by the Greeks" | |||
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