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Euclid’s ‘Elements’ of geometry are regarded as a masterpiece of scientific writing. This lucid systematic exposition of the discoveries of the Greek geometers can be taken as the first example of a physical theory, the ‘Euclidean theory of space’, as Emile Picard (1905, p. 10) put it.
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de Beauregard, O.C. (1987). The More Than Two Millennia of Euclidean Geometry. In: Time, The Physical Magnitude. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, vol 99. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-3811-3_2
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