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Started
to work on geometry himself at the age of 12.
Discovered
that sum of the angles of a triangle are two right angles 
Admire
the work of Desargues at the age of 15
Presented
a single piece of paper to one of Mersenne's meeting in June 1639 that
contained a number of projective geometry theorems
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