2007-03-13 05:42:07 · 4 answers · asked by sandra 1 in Education & Reference ➔ Homework Help
One source is Sir Thomas L. Heath's edition of Euclid's Elements.
He gives many historical comments in footnotes and other discussion.
For example, in vol. 1, page 137 of the Dover paperback edition, Heath
mentions that Plato refers to the golden section (closely related to
the rectangle) and Euclid includes the construction in
proposition 11 of Book II of his Elements. Heath also says that the
idea is most probably Pythagorean, which means that it was known ca.
500 BC. I doubt if it is known or will ever be known exactly who
discovered the rectangle.
2007-03-13 05:56:30 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
You're kidding, right?
Someone in caveman times drew a rectangle on the ground.
2007-03-13 05:44:08 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Sierpinski Triangle Waclaw Sierpinski invented the triangle
2007-03-13 05:44:12 · answer #3 · answered by cmhurley64 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the first person to find the rectangle? Any rectangle in particular?
It was probably my great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great grandfather
2007-03-13 05:45:22 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋