Published by Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. / University of Chicago Press, Chicago, London, Toronto, Geneva, 1952
Language: English
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. No. 11 in the Great Books of the Western World series. Editor in Chief: Robert Maynard Hutchins. --- The Thirteen Books of Euclid's Elements and The Works of Archimedes, including The Method, translated by Sir Thomas L. Heath, are reprinted by arrangement with Cambridge University Press. Conics is reprinted by arrangement with the translator, R. Catesby Taliaferro. Nicomachus of Gerasa: Introduction to Arithmetic, by Martin Luther D'Ooge, Frank Egleston Robbins, and Louis Charles Karpinski, is reprinted by arrangement with The Regents of the University of Michigan. --- Original green cloth boards, lettered gilt in black panel on spine (23.9 cm height). Very, very slight shelf rub to corners of spine, else fine. Endpapers: List of Book List of the Great Books of the Western World. With many diagrams and figures. Euclid: pp. ix-xi (i blank) 396 including Biographical Note, Contents. Archimedes: pp. 399-400-401-592 including Biographical Note. Apollonius: Pp. 595 - 804 including Biographical Note, Abbreviations and Symbols, in 3 books. Nicomachus: Pp. 807-808, - 848 including Biographical Note. With Footnotes.
Published by Johnson Reprint Corporation, New York & London, 1972
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Hardcover. Condition: As New. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Dark green cloth with gilt sp. lettering. (2) + Original half-title + orignal 1926 t.p. as pub. by Macmillan + ix + 318; no obvious faults, virtually pristine. Originally issued in 1926 as University of Michigan Studies. Humanistic Series Volume XVI. This is the first reprint, technically a facsimile. Nicomachus' dates unknown but 1st-2nd century C.E., apparently a contemporary of Theon but does not cite Ptolemy. Apparently very scarce. 14 cm x 22 cm.
Published by Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1926 [1938]., 1938
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First Edition, second printing. ix, 318 pp, ads. Original cloth, 4to. Top and bottom of spine slightly worn, else Very Good. University of Michigan Studies, Humanistic Series Vol. XVI. English translation = pp. 181-286. '[E]xcellent introductory essays' (D.S.B. X: 113).