Hippocrates of Chios – His Elements and His Lunes A critique of circular reasoning
Hippocrates of Chios, active during the later fifth century BCE, is stated in Proclos's “catalogue of geometers” to have been the first writer of elements, and is also known to have worked on the squaring of “lunes”, plane figures contained by a convex and a concave circular arc. Customarily th...
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AIMS Press
2020-01-01
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