Euclid did not divorce geometry from the empirical world. ;) I think what distinguishes Descartes is the algebraization of geometry, not removing it from sensuous experience. That was what the ancient Platonists were all about.
--- Charles Brown <charlesb at cncl.ci.detroit.mi.us> wrote:
> Well there was this guy called Euclid...
>
Mataiotes mataioteton, eipen ho Ekklasiastes, mataiotes mataioteton, ta panta mataiotes.
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