Prehispanic coastal hydraulics

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  • Santiago E. Antúnez de Mayolo R.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.36901/allpanchis.v18i27.1007

Keywords:

Peruvian coast

Abstract

When it is verified that the pre-Inca cultures aligned the location of their cities through astronomical triangulation (Ebeneth 1982), as well as the section of the canals was built with supercritical, critical and sub-critical values, observed in contemporary technology, and that Furthermore, they used complex mathematical elucubrations to instruct the numerous stonemasons who simultaneously carved the plans at different angles that each of the stones that would later be assembled should have, to allow the release of the efforts of the most severe seismic movements; It leads us to recognize the great advance that the ancient Peruvians came to have in calculation, constituting a loss for humanity that such knowledge could not be grasped by the Hispanics (Antúnez 1984).

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1986-06-02

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