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Euclid

Euclid

c. 300 BCE

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Author of the Elements — geometry as a discipline of clear definitions and steps you can trust.

Story so far

  1. c. 330 BCEpersonal

    Birth

  2. c. 310–300 BCEpersonal

    Education and arrival in Alexandria

  3. c. 300 BCEhighlight

    Composition of the Elements

  4. c. 300 BCEwork

    Scholar at the Musaeum

  5. c. 300 BCEwork

    Optics and other treatises

  6. c. 270 BCEdeath

    Death

  7. c. 287–212 BCElegacy

    Influence on Archimedes

  8. c. 100 ADlegacy

    Earliest physical fragments

  9. 1482legacy

    First printed edition

  10. 19th centurylegacy

    Challenge to Euclidean dominance

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