Description: Volume 1 of 3-volume set containing complete English text of all 13 books of the "Elements" plus critical analysis of each definition, postulate, and proposition. Vol. 1 includes Introduction, Books I and II: Triangles, rectangles. . 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.
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Number of Pages: 464 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Thirteen Books of the Elements
Publisher: Dover Publications, Incorporated
Publication Year: 1956
Subject: History & Philosophy, Geometry / General, History
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Subject Area: Mathematics, Science
Author: Euclid
Series: Dover Books on Mathematics Ser.
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