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Already two millenniums before Christ, a substantial geometric knowledge exists: results like the Pythagoras or the Thales intercept theorem are known of the Egyptians or Mesopotamians, long before the Greek mathematicians provide a formal proof of these. Various approximate formulas for computing lengths, areas or volumes are also known.
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Borceux, F. (2014). Pre-Hellenic Antiquity. In: An Axiomatic Approach to Geometry. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-01730-3_1
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