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Ceci n'est ... perhaps?

There was a Greek bloke who had a thing about perfection and geometry. Eclad or something similar (OK: Euclid).

At what point does the perfect approach reality or vice versa?

The pipe in question might not be French - the painting was painted by a French person but you cannot imply the country of the pipe itself on that basis without additional evidence!



Euclid with diagrams is modernism! The original texts didn’t have them.




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