SOURCE: "Euclid's Sectio canonis and the History of Pythagoreanism," in Science and Philosophy in Classical Greece, translated by Alan C. Bowen, Garland Publishing, Inc., 1991, pp. 164-87.
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 that the work is Euclid's. Bowen also contends that the belief that the work is Pythagorean may be as "ill-founded" as the authorship debate.
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