[The Elements 03] • The Thirteen Books of the Elements, Volume 3

[The Elements 03] • The Thirteen Books of the Elements, Volume 3
Authors
Euclid
Publisher
Dover Publications
Tags
science , reference
ISBN
9780486600901
Date
1956-06-01T00:00:00+00:00
Size
13.14 MB
Lang
en
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Volume 3 of three-volume set containing complete English text of all 13 books of the Elements plus critical apparatus analyzing each definition, postulate, and proposition in great detail. 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. 3 includes Books X-XIII: Commensurable magnitudes, solids, cones, cylinders.