1. Beauty in Euclid's Geometry
... he collected The Elements of geometry, starting from the most basic concepts, "a point is that which has no part- and "a line is breadthless length-. After stating that "the extremities of a line are points- and postulating that it is possible "to draw a straight line from any point to any point-, he opened the doors to a realm of perfect forms, or figures, that can only ... as the one raised by the Mantinean's advise: Where will we find the beautiful itself? Focusing our mind on the metaphysical plane where the triangle exists and by following Euclid's reasoning we find that we too can...
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