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A remarkable feature of Euclid's, and of all Greek geometry before Archimedes is that it eschews mensuration . Thus the theorem that the area of a triangle equals half the product of its base and its altitude is foreign to Euclid.

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We can no more have exact religious thinking without theology, than exact mensuration and astronomy without mathematics, or exact iron-making without chemistry,

— John Hall (Presbyterian pastor) (1895) Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers p.580.

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