Excerpt from Elements of Geometry: Containing the First Six Books of Euclid, With a Supplement on the Quadrature of the Circle, and the Geometry of Solids; To Which Are Added, Elements of Plane and Sphericale Trigonometry
This is sometimes called Reductio ad Absurdum; because it shows the absurdity and falsehood of all suppositions contrary to that contained in the proposition.
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