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Description	English: Oxyrhynchus papyrus (P.Oxy. I 29) showing fragment of Euclid's Elements Русский: Папирус из Oxyrhynchus (P.Oxy. I 29) с франментами Начал Евклида
Source	http://www.math.ubc.ca/~cass/Euclid/papyrus/tha.jpg
Date	AD 75-125 (estimated)
Author	unknown
Permission ( Reusing this image)	N/A

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This is "[o]ne of the oldest and most complete diagrams from Euclid's Elements of Geometry". It "is a fragment of papyrus found among the remarkable rubbish piles of Oxyrhynchus in 1896-97 by the renowned expedition of B. P. Grenfell and A. S. Hunt. It is now located at the University of Pennsylvania. The diagram accompanies Proposition 5 of Book II of the Elements." -- Copied from http://www.math.ubc.ca/~cass/Euclid/papyrus/papyrus.html, where more information can be found.

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current	06:52, 9 October 2006	1,694×1,032 (320 KB)	Jitse Niesen	({{Information \|Description=Oxyrhynchus papyrus showing fragment of Euclid's Elements \|Source=http://www.math.ubc.ca/~cass/Euclid/papyrus/tha.jpg \|Date=AD 75-125 (estimated) \|Author=unknown }})

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