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

Sir Thomas L. Heath: Euclid: The Thirteen Books of The Elements, Volume $\text { 1 }$

Published $\text {1908}$

Contents

Preface (November, 1908)

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.

Further Editions

• 1926: Sir Thomas L. Heath: Euclid: The Thirteen Books of The Elements: Volume $\text { 1 }$ (2nd ed.)