The principle to avoid `` neuseis '' whenever possible , may have been spread by Hippocrates of Chios ( ca. 430 BC ) , who originated from the same island as Oenopides , and who was -- as far as we know -- the first to write a systematically ordered geometry textbook .
Hippocrates of Chios ( ca. 430 BC ) may have spread the idea that mathematicians should avoid `` neuseis '' whenever possible . He came from the same island as Oenopides , and who was -- as far as we know -- the first to write a systematically ordered geometry textbook .