efface

It has been rightly said that the inundations of the Nile forced the Egyptians to invent the first elements of geometry that they might redistribute the fields when the stream, bursting its banks, had effaced their land-marks.
On a dit, avec raison, que les inondations du Nil forcèrent les Égyptiens à inventer les premiers éléments de la géométrie, afin de pouvoir redistribuer les champs, dont le fleuve débordé avait emporté les démarcations.
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