Abstract
In the Corpus Aristotelicum are numerous items suggesting that the assertion of the fifth postulate in Euclid'sElements had been preceded by attempts to demonstrate this postulate itself, or some equivalent fundamental proposition, within the rigorous frame of Absolute Geometry in Bolyai's sense. Thus geometers contemporary with Aristotle tried to solve the problem which became known commonly in later centuries as the Problem of Parallels.
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