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Heath Thomas

The thirteen books of Euclids Elements Vol. I - New York Dover Publications 2015 - 432p x

Table of contents
VOLUME I.
INTRODUCTION.
FACSIMILE OF A PAGE OF THE BODLEIAN MS. OF THE ELEMENTS. Frontispiece
I. EUCLID AND THE TRADITIONS ABOUT HIM
II. EUCLID'S OTHER WORKS
III. GREEK COMMENTATORS OTHER THAN PROCLUS
IV. PROCLUS AND HIS SOURCES
V. THE TEXT
VI. THE SCHOLIA
VII. EUCLID IN ARABIA
VIII. PRINCIPAL TRANSLATIONS AND EDITIONS
IX.
1. ON THE NATURE OF ELEMENTS
2. ELEMENTS ANTERIOR TO EUCLID'S
3. "FIRST PRINCIPLES: DEFINITIONS, POSTULATES AND AXIOMS"
4. THEOREMS AND PROBLEMS
5. THE FORMAL DIVISIONS OF A PROPOSITION
6. OTHER TECHNICAL TERMS
7. THE DEFINITIONS
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. I.
ENGLISH INDEX TO VOL. 1.

ISBN: 9780486600888

Subjects--Topical Terms:
1. Mathematics - Greek2. Gemetry

Dewey Class. No.: 513.000000 / HEA-I