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Q: How did ancient greek geometers represent solids?

Arnold BrooksI've seen plenty of ancient diagrams representing plane figures.* But I'd like to know how ancient geometers, especially around the time of Euclid, might have represented solids. Did they use diagrams with perspective? Three dimensional models? *cf. David Fowler, "The Mathematics of Plato's Aca...

 

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