Insights and Manipulations – What Classical Geometry Looked like at Its Peak, and How It Was Transformed – A GuidebookThe past becomes a source of wisdom when the scientific quest for uncovering the roots of things is combined with the humanistic endeavour to make the dead letter come alive in a thoughtful mind. Vague attempts at being interdisciplinary, by contrast, merely provide excuses to avoid examining the words set down by the scientific thinkers themselves. If we love wisdom in its wholeness, we must explore the sources of the things that we now take for