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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Publicado en:Synthese Vol. 186; no. 1; pp. 55 - 103
Autor principal: Panza, Marco
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Springer Nature May2012
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