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8vo (24 cm), [6], XV, 747, [3] pp. Leather-backed marbled boards (school-prize inscription on the first blank leaf, stamp of a Kiev bookshop on the title, some foxing). In Russian. The first edition of Vaschenko-Zakharchenko's translation of Euclid's Elements of Geometry into Russian (including books XIV and XV but excluding books VII-IX) with extensive commentaries, additions, an introduction to non-Euclidean geometry according to Lobachevsky. The book also contains a list of printed editions of Euclid's Elements from 1482 to 1880 and a bibliography of non-Euclidean geometry up to 1880. Mikhail Vaschenko-Zakharchenko (1825 - 1912) was a mathematician who worked in Kiev. His major areas of research were the history of geometry in antiquity and non-Euclidean geometry. Seller Inventory # 005302
Bibliographic Details
Title: Nachala Evklida s Poiasnitel'nym Vvdeniem i ...
Publisher: In the typography of the Imperial University of St. Vladimir, Kiev
Publication Date: 1880
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good
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