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  • Thales is believed to have studied the Egyptians' techniques of land measurement ( geo metry in Greek) later codified by Euclid.

    May 28, 585 B.C.: Predicted Solar Eclipse Stops Battle 2008

  • Thales is believed to have studied the Egyptians' techniques of land measurement geo metry in Greek later codified by Euclid.

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  • Thales is believed to have studied the Egyptians' techniques of land measurement geo metry in Greek later codified by Euclid.

    Ancient Eclipse Stopped Battle! Jan 2008

  • Thales is believed to have studied the Egyptians' techniques of land measurement ( geo metry in Greek) later codified by Euclid.

    May 28, 585 B.C.: Predicted Solar Eclipse Stops Battle 2008

  • I recognized that she was practicing psycho metry, attempting to divine knowledge of the owner of the comb through contact with it.

    Incubus Arensberg, Ann, 1937- 1999

  • When they danced apart, she was a marvel of motion and sym - metry; when they danced together, she was absolute de - light.

    Blue Adept Anthony, Piers 1981

  • (Advancement of Learning, I) is a notable attempt at persuading scientists to search for the first and simple cause, so the man of the Renaissance hardly needed to leap to find correspondences among the particular arts, since all art reflected — perhaps refined — nature, just as nature reflected God, in “harmony,” “sym - metry,” and “proportion.”

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas JOHN GRAHAM 1968

  • Plato, and sees in unity, order, proportion, and sym - metry the essence and form of beauty.

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas HERBERT DIECKMANN 1968

  • Augustinians, and others, makes a key use of various pregnant terms: harmony, measure, proportion, sym - metry, order.

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas MONROE C. BEARDSLEY 1968

  • Burnet had grown up with traditional ideas of sym - metry and proportion.

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas MARJORIE HOPE NICOLSON 1968

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