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Euclid’s Elements (300BC)

Euclid’s Elements (300BC)

Source: aleph0.clarku.edu/~djoyce/java/elements/bookVII/bookVII.html#guide   ELEMENTS BOOK 1: Fundamentals of Plane Geometry Involving Straight-Lines Definitions A point is that which has no part. A line is breadthless length. The ends of a line are points. A straight …

 

Timaeus, Plato (360 BC)

Timaeus, Plato (360 BC)

Timaeus All men, Socrates, who have any degree of right feeling, at the beginning of every enterprise, whether small or great, always call upon God. …

 

Politeia, Plato, 380BC

Politeia, Plato, 380BC

 http://www.gutenberg.org/files/1497/1497-h/1497-h.htm#link2H_4_0005 II.11—II.16. 369b—376e. Genesis of the Polis   I will tell you, I replied; justice, which is the subject of our enquiry, is, as you know, sometimes spoken …

 

Space

Space