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Volume 3 of three-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; classical, medieval, Renaissance and modern commentators; refutations, supports, extrapolations, reinterpretations and historical notes. Vol. 3 includes Books 10-13: Commensurable magnitudes, solids, cones, cylinders.
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This is the definitive edition of one ofthe very greatest classics of all time the full Euclid, not an abridgement. Utilizing the text established by Heiberg, Sir Thomas Heath encompasses almost 2500 years of mathematical and historical study upon Euclid.
This unabridged republication of the original enlarged edition contains thecomplete English text of all 13 booksof the Elements, plus a critical apparatus which analyzes each definition, postulate, andproposition in great detail. It covers textual and linguistic matters; mathematical anayses of Euclid's ideas; classical, medieval, Renaissance, modern commentators; refutations, supports, extrapolations, reinterpretations, and historical notes, all given with extensive quotes.
"The textbook that shall really replace Euclid has not yet been written and probably never will be," Encyclopaedia Britannica."
Synopsis
Volume 1 of 3-volume set containing complete English text of all 13 books of the
Elements plus critical analysis. Covers textual and linguistic matters, more. Includes 2,500 years of commentary. Total in set: 995 figures.
Synopsis
Volume 3 of three-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; classical, medieval, Renaissance and modern commentators; refutations, supports, extrapolations, reinterpretations and historical notes. Vol. 3 includes Books X-XIII: Commensurable magnitudes, solids, cones, cylinders.
Table of Contents
BOOK X. INTRODUCTORY NOTE
DEFINITIONS I.
PROPOSITIONS I?47
DEFINITIONS II.
PROPOSITIONS 48?84
DEFINITIONS III.
PROPOSITIONS 85?115
ANCIENT EXTENSIONS OF THEORY OF BOOK X
BOOK XI. DEFINITIONS
PROPOSITIONS
BOOK XII. HISTORICAL NOTE
PROPOSITIONS
BOOK XIII. HISTORICAL NOTE
PROPOSITIONS
"APPENDIX. I. THE SO-CALLED "BOOK XIV." (BY HYPSICLES)"
II. "NOTE ON THE SO-CALLED "BOOK XV."
GENERAL INDEX : GREEK
" " " ENGLISH"