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"Euclid is said to have written the Elements of Music. Two treatises are attributed to Euclid in... the Musici, the... Sectio canonis (the theory of the intervals) and the... (introduction to harmony). The first, resting on the Pythagorean theory of music, is mathematical and clearly and well written, the style and the form of the propositions agreeing well with what we find in the Elements. Its genuineness is confirmed not only by internal evidence... Euclid is twice mentioned by name, in the commentary on Ptolemy's Harmonica published by Wallis... The second treatise is not Euclid's..."

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Sir Thomas Little Heath, The Thirteen Books of Euclid's Elements (1908) Vol.1 Introduction and Books I, II p.17, citing Proclus p. 69 3; Musici Scriptores Graeci, ed. Jan (Teubner, 1895) pp. 113-166; Jan, Musici Scriptores Graeci, p. 116

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Euclid

Euclid (Greek: Εὐκλείδης), also known as Euclid of Alexandria, was a Greek mathematician, often referred to as the "founder of geometry" or the "father of geometry". He was active in Alexandria during the reign of Ptolemy I (323–283 BC). His Elements is one of the most influential works in the history of mathematics, serving as the main textbook for teaching mathematics (especially geometry) from the time of its publication until the late 19th or early 20th century. In the Elements, Euclid deduc

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