In this paper, we attempt a new interpretation of Euclid’s Elements, Book X - a hazardous endeavour! But there are two hints that, we think, should be brought to bear and – with few caveats – were substantially ignored by past scholarship into this question. For the first hint, we ...
The first book, in which Kepler outlines his theory, is entirely devoted to geometry, the second on music. He declares: Since today, to judge by the books that are published, there is a total neglect of the intellectual distinctions to be made among geometrical entities, I thought fit to ...
Euclid, the most prominent mathematician of Greco-Roman antiquity, best known for his geometry book, the Elements. It is sometimes said that, other than the Bible, the Elements is the most translated, published, and studied of all the books produced in t