Timeline for Did the notion of "angle" originate with Thales?
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| Oct 10, 2018 at 13:59 | history | edited | Joseph O'Rourke | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Typo.
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| Dec 23, 2015 at 15:58 | answer | added | Carlo Beenakker | timeline score: 5 | |
| Dec 23, 2015 at 13:26 | answer | added | Franz Lemmermeyer | timeline score: 10 | |
| Feb 6, 2014 at 4:14 | comment | added | Johan Wästlund | I don't see anything very wrong with this question. | |
| Feb 6, 2014 at 2:30 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Feb 6, 2014 at 1:22 | comment | added | Vidit Nanda | Almost certainly, the answer is no. There are "divisions of the circle into 360" in the Rigveda, to say nothing of clay tablets from the Babylonian and Sumerian periods. I'm not sure if this is MO-material, so if you want I can send explicit references by email. | |
| Feb 6, 2014 at 1:00 | history | asked | Joseph O'Rourke | CC BY-SA 3.0 |