The Thirteen Books of the Elements, Vol. 3This 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. |
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The Thirteen Books of Euclid's Elements, Volume 3 Euclid,Sir Thomas Little Heath Limited preview - 1956 |
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area a medial base binomial straight line bisected breadth circle ABCD circle EFGH commensurable in length commensurable in square cone cut in extreme cylinder decagon diameter dodecahedron equilateral Euclid extreme and mean greater segment height icosahedron inscribed irrational straight line kp² Lemma let the square magnitudes mean ratio measure medial area medial straight line medial whole parallelepipedal solids parallelogram pentagon perpendicular plane of reference polygon prism PROPOSITION proved ratio triplicate rational and incommensurable rational area rational straight line rectangle AC rectangle contained right angles second apotome side Similarly solid angle sphere square number square on AB squares on AC straight lines commensurable surable triangle twice the rectangle vertex whence