Elements of Plane Geometry, According to Euclid, as Improved by Simson and Playfair: With Several New Improvements and Additions (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

Andrew Bell

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 026654780X ISBN 13: 9780266547808

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2020

Synopsis

Excerpt from Elements of Plane Geometry, According to Euclid, as Improved by Simson and Playfair: With Several New Improvements and Additions

The basis of the first six books is the Elements of Geometry of 311054, as given in the very correct edition by Simeon, with the improved fifth book by Playfair, and the other improvements of the latter geometer contained in his original edition of Euclid's Elements. None of the propositions of that edition are here sup pressed, but proposition H of the sixth book is inserted at the and of the additional second book with a new demonstration, and instead of it a more important proposition is substituted at the end of the sixth book.

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Edition details

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2020
• ISBN 10: 026654780X
• ISBN 13: 9780266547808
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 270