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Sir Thomas L. Heath: Euclid: The Thirteen Books of The Elements (2nd Edition)
Published $\text {1926}$, Dover
Subject Matter
A contemporary publication of Euclid's The Elements.
- The Thirteen Books of Euclid's Elements
- Translated from the text of Heiberg
- With Introduction and Commentary
Volume 1
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
- Chap. IX.
- The Elements
- Book I.
- Definitions, Postulates, Common Notions
- Notes on Definitions etc.
- Propositions
- Book I.
- Book II.
- Definitions
- Notes on geometric algebra
- Propositions
- Book II.
- Excursus I. Pythagoras and the Pythagoreans
- Excursus II. Popular Names for Euclidean Propositions
- Greek Index to Vol. I.
- English Index to Vol. I.
Volume 2
Contents
- Book III.
- Definitions
- Propositions
- Book III.
- Book IV.
- Definitions
- Propositions
- Book IV.
- Book V.
- Introductory Note
- Definitions
- Propositions
- Book V.
- Book VI.
- Introductory Note
- Definitions
- Propositions
- Book VI.
- Book VII.
- Definitions
- Propositions
- Book VII.
- Book VII.
- Book IX.
- Greek Index to Vol. II.
- English Index to Vol. II.
Volume 3
Contents
- Book X.
- Introductory Note
- Definitions I.
- Propositions 1 - 47
- Definitions II.
- Propositions 48 - 84
- Definitions III.
- Propositions 85 - 115
- Ancient extensions of theory of Book X
- Book X.
- Book XI.
- Definitions
- Propositions
- Book XI.
- Book XII.
- Historical note
- Propositions
- Book XII.
- Book XIII.
- Historical note
- Propositions
- Book XIII.
- Appendix I. The so-called "Book XIV." (by Hypsicles)
- Appendix II. Note on the so-called "Book XV."
- General Index: Greek
- General Index: English