The twofold role of diagrams in Euclid's plane geometry

DOI10.1007/S11229-012-0074-2MaRDI QIDQ375269zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Marco Panza

Publication date 29 October 2013

Published in Synthese (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-012-0074-2

zbMATH Keywords

Eucliddiagramsplane geometry

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of Greek and Roman mathematics (01A20) Philosophy of mathematics (00A30) History of geometry (51-03) Euclidean geometries (general) and generalizations (51M05)

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