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Before we deal with the European Middle Ages in the following chapter, we will present an overview in this chapter of the development of geometry in the oriental countries up to the 15th century, in Japan until the end of its seclusion in 1868, and in the old American cultures.
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Scriba, C.J., Schreiber, P. (2015). Oriental and old American geometry. In: 5000 Years of Geometry. Birkhäuser, Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-0898-9_3
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