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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><b>From:</b> Members <members-bounces@lists.sigcis.org> on behalf of Brian Randell via Members <members@lists.sigcis.org><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, October 24, 2024 9:14 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> herbert.bruderer@bluewin.ch <herbert.bruderer@bluewin.ch><br>
<b>Cc:</b> Sigcis <members@sigcis.org><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [SIGCIS-Members] Surveying instruments in the 17th century</span>
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<p style="margin: 0cm; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Dear Herbert:</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0cm; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Many thanks – very interesting.</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0cm; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">I’ve not paid much attention to the history of surveying instruments, but I do remember being impressed by a short program years ago on BBC TV in a series
whose title was something like “What Did the Romans Do for Us?”. This particular program was about their surveying techniques and tools, in particular those used for planning and constructing impressively lengthy aqueducts.</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0cm; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Cheers</span></p>
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On 24/10/2024, 11:15, "Members" <members-bounces@lists.sigcis.org> wrote:</p>
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Dear colleagues:</p>
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As these pictures show, surveying in the 17th century was very laborious:</p>
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Technical Marvels, Part 8: Historical Surveying Instruments – Communications of the ACM <<span style="color: blue;"><u><a href="https://cacm.acm.org/blogcacm/technical-marvels-part-8-historical-surveying-instruments/%3e" id="OWA9d6e7140-9d57-b68a-1a5c-c5fde5dce1fe" class="OWAAutoLink" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="color: blue; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">https://cacm.acm.org/blogcacm/technical-marvels-part-8-historical-surveying-instruments/></a></u></span> Posted
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see also:</p>
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List of 77 blog posts on the history of analog and digital computing, technology, automatons, robots, and scientific instruments (mathematics, astronomy, surveying, time measurement, mechanical looms) published by the Communication of the ACM, New York, 2017-2024,</p>
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DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.27909.97760 <<span style="color: blue;"><u><a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.27909.97760%3e" id="OWA80768da1-2ad3-baee-dd29-ea00d03a65c9" class="OWAAutoLink" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="color: blue; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">http://dx.doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.27909.97760></a></u></span></p>
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Best wishes,</p>
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Herbert Bruderer</p>
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