The twofold role of diagrams in Euclid's plane geometry.

Proposition I.1 is, by far, the most popular example used to justify the thesis that many of Euclid's geometric arguments are diagram-based. Many scholars have recently articulated this thesis in different ways and argued for it. My purpose is to reformulate it in a quite general way, by describing...

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Published in:	Synthese Vol. 186; no. 1; pp. 55 - 103
Main Author:	Panza, Marco
Format:	Article
Published:	Springer Nature May2012
Subjects:	Plane geometry Charts, diagrams, etc. Euclidean algorithm Graphic methods Scholars
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost