Main entry:

Euclid.

Title & Author:

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

Edition:

Second edition, revised with additions.

Publication:

New York : Dover Publications, [1956]

Description:

3 volumes : facsimile, diagrams ; 22 cm.

Series:

Dover classics of science and mathematics

Notes:
"An unabridged and unaltered republication of the second edition [published in 1926]."
Translation from the original Greek.
"An unabridged and unaltered republication of the second edition [published in 1926]"
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Euclid and the traditions about him -- Euclid's other works -- Greek commentators other than Proclus -- Proclus and his sources -- The text -- The scholia -- Euclid in Arabia -- Principal translations and editions -- On the nature of elements : Elements anterior to Euclid's ; First principles: definitions, postulates and axioms ; Theorems and problems ; The formal divisions of a preposition ; Other technical terms ; The definitions -- Book 1 : Definitions, postulates, common notions ; Notes on definitions etc. ; Definitions -- Book 2 : Definitions ; Note on geometrical algebra ; Propositions. Vol 2: Book 3 : Definitions ; Propositions -- Book 4 : Definitions ; Propositions -- Book 5 : Introduction note ; Definitions ; Propositions -- Book 6 : Introduction note ; Definitions ; Propositions -- Book 7 : Definitions ; Propositions -- Book 8 -- Book 9.

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.

ISBN:

0486600882
9780486600888
0486600890 (v. 2)
9780486600895 (v. 2)
0486600904 (v. 3)
9780486600901 (v. 3)

Subject:

Euclide, approximately 3e siècle av. J.-C. Eléments.
Euclid
Mathematics, Greek.
Geometry Early works to 1800.
Geometría griega.
Mathématiques grecques.
Géométrie Ouvrages avant 1800.
Geometry
Wiskunde.
Euclidische meetkunde.
Geometria.
Geometria (Textos Classicos)
Matematica.
Geometria Analitica.
Fundamentos Da Geometria.

Form/genre:

Early works

Added entries:

Heath, Thomas Little, Sir, 1861-1940, writer of introduction, writer of added commentary.
Heath, Thomas Little, Sir, 1861-1940.
Dover classics of science and mathematics.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 109234
Call No.: QA31.E875 (ID:94-B3184)
Copy: v. 1-3 (BOOKS I-XIII)
Status: Available