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Thirteen Books of Euclid's Elements, Vol. 1
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Release NotesVolume 1 of 3-volume set containing complete English text of all 13 books of the
Elements plus critical apparatus analyzing each definition, postulate, and
proposition in great detail. Covers textual and linguistic matters; mathematical
analyses of Euclid's ideas; commentators; refutations, supports, extrapolations,
reinterpretations and historical notes. Vol. 1 includes Introduction, Books 1-2:
Triangles, rectangles.

Table Of Contents

VOLUME I.
INTRODUCTION.
FACSIMILE OF A PAGE OF THE BODLEIAN MS. OF THE ELEMENTS.
Frontispiece
I. EUCLID AND THE TRADITIONS ABOUT HIM
II. EUCLID'S OTHER WORKS
III. GREEK COMMENTATORS OTHER THAN PROCLUS
IV. PROCLUS AND HIS SOURCES
V. THE TEXT

VI. THE SCHOLIA
VII. EUCLID IN ARABIA
VIII. PRINCIPAL TRANSLATIONS AND EDITIONS
IX.
1. ON THE NATURE OF ELEMENTS
2. ELEMENTS ANTERIOR TO EUCLID'S
3. "FIRST PRINCIPLES: DEFINITIONS, POSTULATES AND AXIOMS"
4. THEOREMS AND PROBLEMS
5. THE FORMAL DIVISIONS OF A PROPOSITION
6. OTHER TECHNICAL TERMS
7. THE DEFINITIONS
THE ELEMENTS.
"BOOK I. DEFINITIONS, POSTULATES, COMMON NOTIONS"
NOTES ON DEFINITIONS ETC
PROPOSITIONS
BOOK II. DEFINITIONS
NOTE ON GEOMETRICAL ALGEBRA
PROPOSITIONS
EXCURSUS I. PYTHAGORAS AND THE PYTHAGOREANS
EXCURSUS II. POPULAR NAMES FOR EUCLIDEAN PROPOSITIONS
GREEK INDEX TO VOL. I.
ENGLISH INDEX TO VOL. 1.

Product Details

* ISBN: 0486600882
* ISBN-13: 9780486600888
* Format: Paperback, 443pp
* Publisher: Dover Publications
* Pub. Date: June 1956
* Edition Description: Unabridged
* Edition Number: 2
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