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Euclidean geometry

noun

  1. geometry based upon the postulates of Euclid, especially the postulate that only one line may be drawn through a given point parallel to a given line.

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Word History and Origins

Origin of Euclidean geometry1

First recorded in 1860–65

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On this postulate hang all the "law and the prophets" of the non-Euclidean Geometry.

The proof itself is borrowed, with slight alterations, from Cuthbertson's "Euclidean Geometry."

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