De geometria.
From Earth to the Heavens
Geometry originated from the earthly necessity of the Egyptians remeasuring their Nile-flooded lands, but wise men later expanded its scope to measure the sea, sky, and all natural bodies.
Geometry means 'measurement of the earth,' because this discipline was first discovered by the Egyptians, whose boundaries the Nile would cover and blur with its flooding and its mud, so they began to measure the land with poles and ropes. Then wise men extended this even further, to the spaces of the sea and the sky and the air and whatever other bodies needed measuring.
Read the original Latin
Geometria mensura terrae interpretatur, eo quod haec disciplina primum ab Aegyptiis reperta sit, quorum terminos cum Nilus inundatione sua limo obduceret et confunderet limites, perticis et funibus terram mensurare coeperunt. deinde a sapientibus etiam ad spatia maris et caeli et aeris et quorumlibet corporum mensuranda deducta sunt et extensa.
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