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The Thirteen Books of The Elements Vol 1(Books 1-2)

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Volume 1 of 3-volume set containing complete English text of all 13 books of the Elements plus critical apparatus analyzing each definition, postulate, and proposition. Covers textual and linguistic matters; mathematical analyses of Euclid's ideas; commentators; refutations, supports, extrapolations, reinterpretations, and historical notes. Vol. 1 includes Introduction, Books I and II of Elements, lines, angles, intersections, etc.

Author(s): Thomas L. Heath, Euclid
Edition: 2
Publisher: Dover Publications
Year: 1956

Language: English
Pages: 464

Introduction

1. Euclid and the traditions about him
2. Euclid's other works
3. Greek commentators other than Proclus
4. Proclus and his sources
5. The text
6. The scholia
7. Euclid in Arabia
8. Principal translations and editions
9. On the nature of elements

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. 1

English index to vol. 1