Abstract:More than thirty published efforts, from Ptolemy downwards, attest the satisfaction with which the Theory of Parallels would be seen established without merging the difficulty into an axiom. As many of these are certainly not elementary, it amounts to an admission that any knowledge on the subject would be acceptable, even though it left the necessity of beginning from the axiom with freshmen.
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