Agreed, I am sure that the drive for axiomisation of geometry drove a lot of this interest. All I really mean is that actually using these tools for an artisti

Agreed, I am sure that the drive for axiomisation of geometry drove a lot of this interest. All I really mean is that actually using these tools for an artistic, constructive purpose gives me a feel for why these problems might of been of interest. Of course, without knowing much about the history of mathematics this far back, I cannot be sure.