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The basic theorem of Book VI looks innocent enough, but it is the foundation of Euclid’s similarity geometry.
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Artmann, B. (1999). Euclid Book VI: Similarity Geometry. In: Euclid—The Creation of Mathematics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-1412-0_15
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