Verify Citation - 3. Measures, Rules, and Prices
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Query: 3. Measures, Rules, and Prices
Verify Citation
Quoted text:
Anthony Seidenberg[1] (1962a: p. 520) concluded that earth-measurement started with the creation of ritual sites as cosmological models. “The whole must be planned accurately in advance. The outlines of the temple were in fact laid out with strings before the walls were begun. The ground plan of a temple, marked out on the bitumen floor by the thin red lines left by a colored string, has actually been found on the summit of the artificial mountain,” the ziggurat at Uruk.
Can someone with access to this text (A. Seidenberg, “The Ritual Origin of Geometry,” Archive for History of Exact Sciences, Vol. 1 [1962a]) verify the page number (520) and that the text in the quotation is accurate to the original source?
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- ↑ A. Seidenberg, “The Ritual Origin of Geometry,” Archive for History of Exact Sciences, Vol. 1 (1962a), p. 520.
