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Euclid as a Text-book

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I REGRET that Mr. Wormell has imported so much of a personal nature into his reply to my former letter. Personality and unintentional misrepresentation appear to me to be its predominating features. Unintentional, I say, for I know little of the writer beyond the fact of his being the author of two or more admirable text-books, and that he is a distinguished member of the London University.

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TUCKER, R. Euclid as a Text-book. Nature 1, 627–628 (1870). https://doi.org/10.1038/001627c0

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