The development of Euclidean axiomatics

Archive for History of Exact Sciences 70 (6):591-676 (2016)
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The paper lists several editions of Euclid’s Elements in the Early Modern Age, giving for each of them the axioms and postulates employed to ground elementary mathematics.

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10.1007/s00407-015-0173-9

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