Elements
work by Hippocrates of Chios
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Hippocrates of Chios, a Greek geometer flourishing around 440 BCE, compiled one of the earliest known works on the elements of geometry. Though his Elements is lost, it is believed to have served as a model for Euclid's later Elements. Hippocrates was also known for his work on quadratures of lunes, demonstrating that certain moon-shaped areas could be expressed as rectilinear areas. He also made progress on the problem of doubling the cube by reducing it to finding two mean proportionals.123
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