shahar
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I don't understand the context of the expression "Plato's circle" and the context.
(1) What is the meaning in other words?
(2) What is the content that the article refer to?
Thank ahead.
Not much younger than these [pupils of Plato] is Euclid, ... He is therefore younger than Plato's circle, but older than Eratosthenes and Archimedes; for these were contemporaries, as Eratosthenes somewhere says. ... of the so-called Platonic figures.
(1) What is the meaning in other words?
(2) What is the content that the article refer to?
Thank ahead.
Not much younger than these [pupils of Plato] is Euclid, ... He is therefore younger than Plato's circle, but older than Eratosthenes and Archimedes; for these were contemporaries, as Eratosthenes somewhere says. ... of the so-called Platonic figures.