# Euclid

- id: euclid
- name in original script: Εὐκλείδης
- dates: fl. c. 300 BCE, Alexandria
- roles: author

Compiler of the Elements, the most copied mathematical text in history. Almost nothing is known of his life beyond his city and his book.

## Works in the atlas

- Elements (elements)

## Sources

- Murdoch, John E. (1971). Euclid: Transmission of the Elements.