worldhistoryfacts: One of the earliest fragments of Euclid’s Elements of Geometry, ca. 100 CE.
worldhistoryfacts: One of the earliest fragments of Euclid’s Elements of Geometry, ca. 100 CE. It diagrams Euclid’s fifth proposition, and reads “If a straight line be cut into equal and unequal segments, the rectangle contained by the unequal segments of the whole together with the square on the straight line between the points of section is equal to the square on the half.” {WHF} {HTE} {Medium} -- source link
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