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Meserve, Bruce E. The Evolution of Geometry. Mathematics Teacher 49 (1956), 372--82.
Discusses the history of geometry starting with the Egyptians and Babylonians and continuing into modern times. The rise and decline of Greek geometry, the logical structure of Greek proofs. Contributions by the Islamic world on the parallel postulate. Contributions of Renaissance artists studying perspective. Analytic geometry. More on the parallel postulate. Non-Euclidean geometry. The development of projective geometry and algebraic geometry. The article concludes with a discussion of how computational technology might change the nature of mathematics. Reprinted in edited form in Swetz, Frank J., From Five Fingers to Infinity. Closely related topics: Geometry, Analytic Geometry, Projective Geometry, Algebraic Geometry, Greece, The Islamic World, and Perspective.