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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- Greek mathematician who applied the deductive principles of logic to geometry, thereby deriving statements from clearly defined axioms. His Elements remained influential as a geometry textbook until the 19th century.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A Greek geometer of the 3d century b. c.; also, his treatise on geometry, and hence, the principles of geometry, in general.
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- proper noun Euclid of Alexandria, a
Greek mathematician - proper noun A male
given name of mostlyhistorical use.
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- noun Greek geometer (3rd century BC)
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EUCLID -- A home invasion in Euclid leads to a police chase early Tuesday morning.
unknown title 2009
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EUCLID -- A home invasion in Euclid leads to a police chase early Tuesday morning.
unknown title 2009
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Somebody mashed his/her brake pedal last night, causing a great big squealy noise, though without actually hitting anything at the end of it -- that's gotten a bit more difficult of late, considering that Euclid is now tending towards far less traffic these days (there are periods of the day when nothing whatsoever passes the house; it's spooky.)
Too young 2008
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South Carolina is the source for Justice Sutherland's classic statement of the distinction in Euclid, which I quoted in a comment to Andy's post.
Balkinization 2007
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The victor was someone called Euclid, whose poetic ode ran thus:
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Via MetaFilter, Byrne's edition of Euclid: Oliver Byrne's 1847 version that used colour-coding to (supposedly) simplify the geometrical proofs in Euclid's Elements.
Archive 2004-08-01 Ray Girvan 2004
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Via MetaFilter, Byrne's edition of Euclid: Oliver Byrne's 1847 version that used colour-coding to (supposedly) simplify the geometrical proofs in Euclid's Elements.
Links purge Ray Girvan 2004
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The translation, of which only one MS. is known, was made about 1120 by Adelard of Bath, who also wrote on the Abacus and translated with a commentary Euclid from the Arabic.
The Earliest Arithmetics in English Anonymous 1902
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MS. 84 is also a good example of thirteenth-century illumination to a rather unpromising subject, being a Latin translation of Euclid from the Arabic by Athelard of Bath.
Illuminated Manuscripts John William Bradley 1873
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He was one of the early medieval translators of Euclid from the Arabic into Latin, and the first printed edition of the _Elements_
A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I (of II) Augustus De Morgan 1838
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