"The most important name from the point of view of this chapter is Hippocrates of Chios. He is indeed the first person of whom it is recorded that compiled a book of Elements. This is lost, but Simplicius has preserved in his commentary on the Physics of Aristotle a fragment from Eudemus's History of Geometry giving an account of Hippocrates's quadratures of certain lunules or lunes."

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