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For 2100 years after the appearance of the Elements, a steady trickle of subtle thinkers were disturbed by Postulate 5. It wasn’t as simple as the other axioms. No one doubted it was true, but it seemed out of place as a basic assumption.
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Trudeau, R.J. (2001). The problem with postulate 5. In: The Non-Euclidean Revolution. Birkhäuser Boston. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-2102-9_4
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