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Euclid's clever solution to the problems of the void and the infinitesimal

Euclid's Definition 1 Now it's time to unravel something even more fundamental than the 5th postulate: the 1st definition. We normally think of a geometrical point as being smaller than anything, because of where Euclid placed it in the hierarchy of geometry. Building up from simple to more complex,  […]

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