It is worth taking a moment to mention the strong tendency to accept European sources and to discount Oriental ones when we read Heath's assessment,
<q><ellipsis />we must necessarily take <foreign>cum grano</foreign><fn>That is, with a grain of salt.</fn> the apparently circumstantial accounts of
Euclid given by Arabian authors; and indeed the origin of their stories can be explained as the result (1) of the Arabian tendency to romance, and (2)
of misunderstandings.</q> (<xref ref="Heath1956" />, p 4)
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Charles