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Sir Thomas L. Heath: Euclid: The Thirteen Books of The Elements, Volume 1 (2nd Edition)
Published $\text {1926}$, Dover
- ISBN 0-486-60088-2
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.