Research Catalog

Title

The thirteen books of Euclid's Elements / translated from the text of Heiberg, with introduction and commentary by Sir Thomas L. Heath.

Author

Euclid.

Publication

New York : Dover Publications, [1956]

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Details

Additional Authors

Heath, Thomas Little, Sir, 1861-1940

Description

3 volumes : facsimile, diagrams; 22 cm.

Summary

This is the definitive edition of one of the very greatest classics of all time - the full Euclid, not an abridgement. Utilizing the text established by Heilberg, Sir Thomas Heath encompasses almost 2500 years of mathematical and historical study upon Euclid. This unabridged republication of the original enlarged edition contains the complete English text of all 13 books of the Elements, plus a critical apparatus which analyzes each definition, postulate, and proposition in great detail. It covers textual and linguistic matters; mathematical analyses of Euclid's ideas; classical, medieval, Renaissance, modern commentators; refutations, supports, extrapolations, reinterpretations, and historical notes, all given with extensive quotes. -- from back cover.

Series Statement

Dover classics of science and mathematics

Uniform Title

• Elements. English
• Dover classics of science and mathematics

Alternative Title

Elements.

Subject

• Mathematics, Greek
• Geometry > Early works to 1800
• Geometry
• Mathematics, Greek
• Wiskunde
• Euclidische meetkunde
• Geometria
• Geometria (Textos Classicos)
• Matematica
• Geometria Analitica
• Fundamentos Da Geometria

Genre/Form

Early works

Note

• "An unabridged and unaltered republication of the second edition [published in 1926]"

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

v. 1. Books I-II -- v. 2. Books III-IX -- v. 3. Books X-XIII.

ISBN

• 0486600882
• 9780486600888
• 0486600890
• 9780486600895
• 0486600904
• 9780486600901

LCCN

56004336

OCLC

• ocm00355237
• 355237
• SCSB-570596

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library