Philosophical Geometry by André VandenBroeck

Philosophical Geometry

André VandenBroeck

168 pages first pub 1987 (editions)

nonfiction challenging informative medium-paced
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Ancient Egyptians and Greeks (up to Euclid) saw in plane geometry much more than land-surveying. For the Greeks, Gaia or Ge (from which our word "geometry" derives) was a universe rather than a planet. Man was the measure of the cosmos and geometr...

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