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Euclid's Elements

Euclid

Form
Form Non-fiction
Year
Year 300 BCE
Originally in
Originally in Ancient greek
Pages
Pages 500

"A point is that which has no part." So begins the most patient book ever written, on a sentence so small it barely seems to be there. From it, and from a handful of plain assumptions, Euclid builds the whole of space as anyone would know it for two thousand years.

A point is that which has no part.
Euclid's Elements, Euclid

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