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Elias C. Tonias and Constantine N. Tonias
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Elias C. Tonias: Tonias Engineers
Constantine N. Tonias: The CEDRA Corporation

Chapter 1 in Geometric Procedures for Civil Engineers, 2016, pp 1-37 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The word “geometry” is derived from the Greek word “γεωμετρία,” which is a fusion of the Greek noun “γέα” (also known as “γαία,” “γαίη” or just plain “γή,” the latter being also the modern Greek word) meaning earth, land, ground, soil, tract, district, nation, native country of a person’s origin, or even the entire globe of the earth, and the Greek noun “μέτρον” meaning measure; that is, geometry pertains to the measurement of a piece of land, or even of the earth as a whole, and fairly much to the work of the present-day land surveyors and topographic engineers. From the first time that the ancient Greeks coined the word geometry, geometry has expanded to encompass the measurement, and construction of most of all figures, real and abstract.

Keywords: Civil Engineering; Computer Language; Electronic Computing; Digital Equipment Corporation; Spherical Triangle (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-24295-8_1

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