Euclid _ The Thirteen Books of the Elements _ Vol. 2 (Books III-IX)

Heath, Thomas L. (trans)

ISBN 10: 0486600890 / ISBN 13: 9780486600895

Published by Dover Publications, Inc, Garden City, 1956

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Euclid _ The Thirteen Books of the Elements _ Vol. 2 (Books III-IX)
• Publisher: Dover Publications, Inc, Garden City
• Publication Date: 1956
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0486600890
• ISBN 13: 9780486600895
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: Paperback Octavo.
• Condition: Very good
• Seller catalogs:
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Volume 2 of 3-volume set containing complete English text of all 13 books of the Elements plus critical analysis of each definition, postulate, and proposition. Covers textual and linguistic matters; mathematical analyses of Euclid's ideas; classical, medieval, Renaissance and modern commentators; refutations, supports, extrapolations, reinterpretations and historical notes. Vol. 2 includes Books III-IX: Circles, relationships, rectilineal figures.