Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Contents of the Fifth and Sixth Books of Euclid: With a Note on Irrational Numbers
These are the earlier parts of Propositions 7 and 8 of Euclid's Fifth Book, but up to this stage in the argument they have been proved only if the magnitudes concerned are commensurable.
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