Euclid and the scientific thought in the third century B.C.

The criticism on the texts of Euclid, even assuming different positions, starts generally from the previous assumption that the author of the Elements is  totally inside the Platonic-Aristotelian tradition. The thesis affirmed in this paper is that many of the gaps and contradictions found by the cr...

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Main Authors: Renato Migliorato, Giuseppe Gentile
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Accademia Piceno Aprutina dei Velati 2005-06-01
Series:Ratio Mathematica
Online Access:http://eiris.it/ojs/index.php/ratiomathematica/article/view/104