Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 October 2008
In the year 1663 John Wallis, Savilian Professor of Geometry in the University of Oxford, delivered a lecture in which he claimed that he had proved Euclid's Postulate of Parallels according to the strictest laws of demonstration after Euclid's manner.
* See p. 674 of the 2nd volume of Wallis's Collected Works.Google Scholar
* See also Note 2 at the end of this paper.Google Scholar
* This proof is due to Professor Nunn (see Mathematical Gazette, May 1922).Google Scholar
* The proof of this proposition is included here because Euclid uses it in his proof of I. 27.Google Scholar