“…He argues in his very interesting preface, why he chose this approach: the practical problems of surveying incited mankind to develop a geometrical science; therefore, if one begins the book with them, one will succeed in interesting anybody much more in geometry-than by an abstract building of axioms and theorems, whose internal meaning nobody can easily understand. (Klein, 2016, p. 250) EoG's rich reception history in modern mathematics education includes research concerning problem solving in mathematics education (Barbin, 1991;Sander, 1982) and the teaching of specific mathematical topics (Arnal-Bailera & Oller-Marcén, 2020;Chorlay, 2015). The analogies of Clairaut's writing project with principles of modern problem-based education are observed in several studies, but some studies (Barbin, 1991) also underlined the historical particularity of the text and the eventual tensions implied with the presuppositions of some modern problem-based approaches.…”