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This is the fancy name for the basic geometry we are familiar with where parallel lines do not intersect. The rules or "postulates" of Euclidian geometry are as follows.
This is the fancy name for the basic geometry we are familiar with where parallel lines do not intersect. The rules or "postulates" of Euclidian geometry are as follows.


[[File:Newton-WilliamBlake.jpg|thumb|Newton (1795–1805) 460 x 600 mm. Collection Tate Britain. Euclidean geometry is the study of mathematical objects that can be constructed by a straight edge and compass.]]
[[File:Screenshot from 2020-06-14 18-55-40.png|thumb|Newton (1795–1805) 460 x 600 mm. Collection Tate Britain. Euclidean geometry is the study of mathematical objects that can be constructed by a straight edge and compass.]]
 
==== Euclidian Postulates ====
==== Euclidian Postulates ====


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