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发帖数: 23 | 1 Of Euclid's life it is known only that he taught at and founded a school
at Alexandria in the time of Ptolemy I Soter, who reigned from 323 to 285/283
BC. Medieval translators and editors often confused him with the philosopher
Eucleides of Megara, a contemporary of Plato about a century before, and
therefore called him Megarensis. Writing in the 5th century AD, the Greek
philosopher Proclus told the story of Euclid's reply to Ptolemy, who asked
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