Before the big leap to the agricultural revolution, nature was the sanctuary and realm of God, that intervention towards the environment was regarded to be a violation of the holy of holies. However, then 10,000 years ago, a revolution began, and Sapiens devoted all their effort to manoeuvring the lives of the animal, plant species and motherland. Holy land was partitioned out into areas in which the property of the certain Tribes was declared. At the transformation from a hunter-gatherer society to the agricultural economy, there was the aspiration of ensuring anthropocentric identity through cultivating and accumulating the goods in their private properties along with hierarchical structure. Based on the etymology, „property“ has the meaning of peculiarity, right of possession, one‘s peculiar nature from Latin „proprietas“ and „proprius“. The proclamation of a particular area of nature and its possession of goods in their land was the significant mark of the first revolution in the history of humankind. In this respect, one of the most crucial issue that human firstly faced in early agricultural society was a systematic method of measuring the land, in which reveals the etymology of the word we use at present: Geometry.
Herodotus in The Histories (c. 440 BC) describes how the ancient Egyptians had to measure the land after each flooding of the Nile:
This king also divided the country among all the Egyptians by giving each an equal parcel of land and made this his source of revenue, assessing the payment of a yearly tax. And any man who was robbed by the river of part of his land could come to Sesostris and declare what had happened; then the king would send men to look into it and calculate the part by which the land was diminished so that thereafter it should pay in proportion to the tax initially imposed. From this, in my opinion, the Greeks learned the art of measuring land.
The group of men called harpedonaptai measured the real property, demarcations and foundations using knotted cords, stretched. Rope stretching technology spread to ancient Greece where it stimulated the development of axiomatic euclidian geometry dealing with point, line, plane, angle, surface and curve. Euclidian geometry was a collection of empirically discovered principles concerning lengths, areas, and volumes, which were developed to meet some practical need.
„Invention of Geometry“ accentuates the emergence of Anthropocene intervention through the perspective of geometry. Human figure as the standard of measurement(dot) of the land itself and as harpedonaptai(line) interplays with the land in which one stands lies, rolls, walks, bends and dances. By these means, the elements of the geometrical invention such as point, line, plane, surface epitomize one chapter of the development of the history.
