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ELEMENTS BOOK 12





                                        Proportional Stereometry                    †


































































              † The novel feature of this book is the use of the so-called method of exhaustion (see Prop. 10.1), a precursor to integration which is generally
            attributed to Eudoxus of Cnidus.

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