Verify Citation - 3. Measures, Rules, and Prices
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Query: 3. Measures, Rules, and Prices
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The Rhind Mathematical Papyrus describes Egyptian paintings showing “the king or a goddess or a priest spanning a rope and thus determining the direction of the temple-walls. From inscriptions we see that the direction was determined by the stars. In an inscription describing the foundation of the temple at Abydos by Sethos I (1300 BC) the goddess is made to speak to the king thus: ‘You were with me in your function as Rope-Stretcher.’ Still earlier, Thutmose III (1500 BC) is said to have spanned the rope towards the sun-god Amon at the horizon” (Peet 1923: p. 32 cited in van der Waerden 1980: p. 34).
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