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Abstract:
This article aims to show how, in the sixteenth century, Euclidean geometry, which was regarded as the epitome of theoretical geometry in the middle ages and in the Renaissance, was to take up, within certain printed commentaries and translations of Euclid’s Elements, features that were typical of practical geometry and how this contributed to the development of an approach to geometry, and also to a representation of geometry, that may be regarded as a hybrid of theoretical and
practical geometry within the Euclidean context.
