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The philosophical and mathematical commentaries of Proclus on the first book of Euclid's elements (Vol. 2 of 2)

Note 21 — BOOK III. (continued 2)

Thomas Taylor translation

That no other figure besides these can fill place, will be evident, if its angle, when found, is multiplied by any number: for, as Tacquet well observes, it will always either exceed, or be deficient from four right angles. For a more particular demonstration of this admirable theorem, see Tacquet Elementa Geometriæ, p. 88.

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