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Product Identifiers

PublisherDover Publications, Incorporated

ISBN-100486600904

ISBN-139780486600901

eBay Product ID (ePID)368667

Product Key Features

Number of Pages560 Pages

Publication NameThirteen Books of the Elements

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year1956

SubjectHistory & Philosophy, Geometry / General

TypeTextbook

AuthorEuclid

Subject AreaMathematics

SeriesDover Books on Mathematics Ser.

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height1.1 in

Item Weight22.9 Oz

Item Length8.5 in

Item Width5.5 in

Additional Product Features

Edition Number2

Intended AudienceCollege Audience

TitleLeadingThe

Dewey Edition22

Series Volume Number3

Commentaries byHeath, Thomas Little

Volume NumberVol. 3

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal513

Table Of ContentBOOK 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"

SynopsisVolume 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., 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 Heiberg, 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 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 ., 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 Heiberg, 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 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 .

LC Classification NumberQA31