Euclid's Elements

'''Euclid's Elements''' is the oldest systematic treatise on [[Euclidean geometry]]. For more than twenty centuries the ''Elements'' was  the major textbook model in the study and teaching of mathematics in the West. Also in other fields [[Euclid]]'s work led the way. The philosopher [[Baruch Spinoza|Spinoza]] wrote his work ''Ethics'' along the lines of the ''Elements'' and so did the physicist [[Isaac Newton|Newton]] when he composed his opus magnum ''Principia''.  

'''Euclid's Elements''' is the oldest systematic treatise on [[Euclidean geometry]]. For more than twenty centuries the ''Elements'' was  the major textbook model in the study and teaching of mathematics in the West. Also in other fields [[Euclid]]'s work led the way. The philosopher [[Baruch Spinoza|Spinoza]] wrote his work ''Ethics'' along the lines of the ''Elements'' and so did the physicist [[Isaac Newton|Newton]] when he composed his opus magnum ''Principia''.  

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