Euclid's "Elements" - Book 1, Proposition 38

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Heath's translation of Euclid's "Elements"
www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/t...
Greek-English parallel text plus diagrams:
archive.org/details/JL_Heiber...
This series is part of a larger project, part of which covers geometry.

[@Israel2.3.2]

One of the most astonishing moments of 2020 for me was seeing Newton's use of Euclid I.37 and I.38 in deriving Kepler's 2nd law in the geometry of central forces.

[@freddupont3597]

Hey there, thanks for this "fantabulous" series. What happened to proposition 37?

[@Math_oma]

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[@Israel2.3.2]

Have you thought about making videos on Leibniz as well? I could be wrong but my understanding is that there is a crucial link between Leibniz's analytical formalism and his knowledge of Aristotle. Leibniz's work seems like a bit of a mathematical-theological playground.