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The Parallel Lines of 5th-Postage
Historians think that Euclid established the parallels postulate as a postulate. The formulation in the element is actually quite different from play-first formulation. Proclus says, how do we know? Because it could be that we keep prolonging them and that we just don't know. Maybe they like the asymptotes in a type of conic.