Proposition III.8 : Cauda pavonis, peacock's tail, queue de paon

Two not inapt terms are used in this edition to describe the figures of III. 7, 8,
the former of which is called the goose's foot (pes anseris),
the second the peacock's tail (cauda pavonis).
They come from Luca Paciuolo's edition of Euclid published in 1509

The Thirteen Books of Euclid's Elements
translated from the text of Heiberg
with introduction and commentary by Sir Thomas L. Heath,
Cambridge, University Press, 1926.


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