Euclid Summary

Euclid and His Contributions Euclid was an ancient Greek mathematician from Alexandria who is best known for his major work, Elements. Although little is known about Euclid the man, he taught in a sch... Read more

Euclid 325?-250? B.C. Greek Mathematician Euclid's Elements, the bible of geometry for 2,000 years, remains the most influential textbook in history, and one of the essential works of human civ... Read more

The Greek mathematician Euclid (active 300 BC) wrote the Elements, a collection of geometrical theorems. The oldest extant major mathematical work in the Western world, it set a standard for logical e... Read more

Virtually nothing is known about the personal life of Euclid. Where he was born is a mystery. Some stories describe Euclid as having attended Plato's Academy in Athens, Greece. If that is true, he pro... Read more

In the following excerpt, Theisen discusses the impact of Euclid's Optica on Western scholars in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries and maintains that by the thirteenth century, a "fir... Read more

In the following essay, Bowen discusses the content of, and issues surrounding, Sectio Canonis. Bowen addresses the question of authorship and responds to critical arguments on this topic, maintaining... Read more

In the following excerpt, first published in 1927 and reprinted in 1975, Sarton offers a brief overview of the scientific developments taking place during the first half of the third century B.C., the... Read more

In the following essay, Lindberg presents an analysis of Euclid's Optica by Alkindi (d. 873), an early Islamic philosopher. Lindberg states that Alkindi "placed himself firmly on the sid... Read more