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1805–1885 England

Robert Potts (1805–1885) was a British mathematician. His edition of Euclid's Elements was the standard geometry textbook for much of the 19th century.

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The ancient Geometry had no symbols, nor any notation beyond ordinary language and the specific terms of the science.

I have had considerable experience in dealing with minds of low logical power, and have found that studies may be made so easy and mechanical as to render thought almost superfluous.

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