Brett Brzycki, Edward Marotta, Lily Petersen This week’s lab focused on ancient methods of measurement using the groma and knotted ropes associated with Egypt. The knotted rope was an Egyptian measuring tool that created a right angle by dividing a rope into 12 equal segments with 13 knots that would create a 3-4-5 right triangle.…
We started preparing for this lab earlier than any other so far. On Monday, we began by tying knots in a rope that would be used to create triangles that we would be able to know the dimensions and therefore areas of. However, our first unforeseen complication arose when we attempted to make evenly spaced…
Monday Class: Building Your Measuring Rope We started the week of measuring by preparing a knotted rope. We started with a 33 foot length of rope and ties knots every 29 inches until we had 13 knots and 12 even sections. Through configuration of this rope and the power of 12, we were able to…
The preparations for the lab this week began on Monday, a whole four days before the main lab would occur on Thursday. We began by tying knots into a 33 foot long rope, each 2.5 feet apart from each other. The total number of knots in the rope should have added up to 13. However,…