Euclides ab omni naevo vindicatus of Girolamo Saccheri (1733)

Euclid Freed of all Blemish. Saccheri assumes the Parallel Postulate is false and derives a result "repugnant to the nature of the straight line". Maybe some do find non-Euclidean geometry repugnant!

Euclides vindicatus

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Gary S. Stoudt