The definitions of fundamental geometric entities contained in book I of Euclid's Elements

DOI10.1007/S004070050016MaRDI QIDQ1385175zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Lucio Russo

Publication date 23 June 1998

Published in Archive for History of Exact Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s004070050016

zbMATH Keywords

definitionsEuclid's Elements

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of Greek and Roman mathematics (01A20)

Review text

The thesis is sustained that the first seven definitions of Book I of the Elements of Euclid actually are excerpts from the Definitions attributed to Heron of Alexandria, interpolated in late antiquity into Euclid's treatise. If this thesis should be right at all, the question rises, whether or not the attribution of the Definitions to Heron of Alexandria is right. This attribution was recently doubted by \textit{W. R. Knorr} [Arithmêtikê stoicheiôsis: On Diophantus and Hero of Alexandria, Hist. Math. 20, No. 2, 180-192 (1993; Zbl 0776.01001)].

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