Book:Sir Thomas L. Heath/Euclid: The Thirteen Books of The Elements/Volume 1/Second Edition

Contents

 * Facsimile of a Page of the Bodleian MS. of the Elements


 * Preface (November, 1908)
 * Preface to the Second Edition (December 1925)


 * Introduction


 * Chap. I. Euclid and the traditions about him


 * Chap. II. Euclid's other works


 * Chap. III. Greek commentators other than Proclus


 * Chap. IV. Proclus and his sources


 * Chap. V. The Text


 * Chap. VI. The Scholia


 * Chap. VII. Euclid in Arabia


 * Chap. VIII. Principal translations and editions


 * Chap. IX.
 * $\S 1$. On the nature of Elements
 * $\S 2$. Elements anterior to Euclid's
 * $\S 3$. First principles: Definitions, Postulates and Axioms
 * $\S 4$. Theorems and Problems
 * $\S 5$. The formal divisions of a proposition
 * $\S 6$. Other technical terms
 * $\S 7$. The definitions


 * The Elements


 * Book I.
 * Definitions, Postulates, Common Notions
 * Notes on Definitions etc.
 * Propositions


 * Book II.
 * Definitions
 * Notes on geometric algebra
 * Propositions


 * Excursus I. Pythagoras and the Pythagoreans
 * Excursus II. Popular Names for Euclidean Propositions
 * Greek Index to Vol. I.
 * English Index to Vol. I.