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The First Six Books of the Elements of Euclid

The First Six Books of the Elements of Euclid

Euclid
Casey, John

Hardcover

General World HistoryGeometryHistory & Philosophy of Science

ISBN10: 1963956184
ISBN13: 9781963956184
Publisher: Ancient Wisdom Publications
Published: Feb 28 2024
Pages: 224
Weight: 1.74
Height: 0.56 Width: 8.38 Depth: 10.88
Language: English

Very little is known of Euclid's life, and most information comes from the scholars Proclus and Pappus of Alexandria many centuries later. Medieval Islamic mathematicians invented a fanciful biography, and medieval Byzantine and early Renaissance scholars mistook him for the earlier philosopher Euclid of Megara. It is now generally accepted that he spent his career in Alexandria and lived around 300 BC, after Plato's students and before Archimedes. There is some speculation that Euclid studied at the Platonic Academy and later taught at the Musaeum; he is regarded as bridging the earlier Platonic tradition in Athens with the later tradition of Alexandria.

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