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The Ancients have, at least in my opinion, passed down in a sufficiently clear way the true and essential nature and the principal properties of the straight lines, the angles enclosed by them, the rectilineal figures that arise from them, and the circles.
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Grootendorst, A.W. (2000). Latin text and translation. In: Jan de Witt’s Elementa Curvarum Linearum, Liber Primus. Sources and Studies in the History of Mathematics and Physical Sciences. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-1238-6_3
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