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... Euclid , whose text has remained the basic authority to our own day . 30 Several portions of Euclid's text are essentially Pythagorean , the most evident being the definitions which open Books I , V , and VII , and the treatment of the ...
... Euclid , whose text has remained the basic authority to our own day . 30 Several portions of Euclid's text are essentially Pythagorean , the most evident being the definitions which open Books I , V , and VII , and the treatment of the ...
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... Euclid expounded them in a purely geo- metric way in the final book of his Elementa , showing how to construct them and proving that each can be inscribed in a sphere . A treatise by Hypsicles ( fl . 160 A.D. ) , regularly printed as ...
... Euclid expounded them in a purely geo- metric way in the final book of his Elementa , showing how to construct them and proving that each can be inscribed in a sphere . A treatise by Hypsicles ( fl . 160 A.D. ) , regularly printed as ...
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... Euclid's Elements is concerned largely with incommensurability ( cf. Euclid , Elements , tr . Billingsley , fol . 228-228 ) . 29 Cf. Aristotle , Metaphysica , 986a18-986a23 ; Nicomachus , Arithmetic [ I.vii ] , tr . D'Ooge , pp . 190 ...
... Euclid's Elements is concerned largely with incommensurability ( cf. Euclid , Elements , tr . Billingsley , fol . 228-228 ) . 29 Cf. Aristotle , Metaphysica , 986a18-986a23 ; Nicomachus , Arithmetic [ I.vii ] , tr . D'Ooge , pp . 190 ...
Contents
An Introduction | 3 |
Pythagoras School and Biography | 19 |
Materials | 45 |
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