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Euclid's Elements. Grant the postulates and the conclusions are forced; anyone who can follow the steps can catch an error without permission from anybody.
In plain words
Euclid's Elements: grant the starting assumptions and every conclusion follows, and anyone who can follow the steps can catch a mistake without anyone's permission: the first authority that hands you the means to overturn it.
The mechanism
THE FIRST AUTHORITY THAT HANDS YOU THE MEANS TO OVERTURN IT — no oracle, no king's seal, no appeal to what the temple holds
How it was checked
- EvidenceT5 INDEPENDENT SECULAR; Status: COMMITTED; a release
- Letter eraTHE PROPHETS AND THE ROAD 776 BC to 4 BC
- Plate — P. Oxy. I 29, a fragment of Euclid's Elements from Oxyrhynchus · CC BY-SA 3.0 · source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Euclid-POxy.jpg
- SourcesSECULAR RECORD — the text itself
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