{"id":20439,"date":"2019-12-16T14:12:31","date_gmt":"2019-12-16T22:12:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/classic.powertactics.com\/?post_type=product&p=20439"},"modified":"2022-01-21T19:21:28","modified_gmt":"2022-01-22T03:21:28","slug":"the-thirteen-books-of-the-elements-vol-1","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/classic.powertactics.com\/product\/the-thirteen-books-of-the-elements-vol-1\/","title":{"rendered":"The Thirteen Books of the Elements, Vol. 1"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
This is the definitive edition of one of the very greatest classics of all time \u2014 the full Euclid, not an abridgement. Using the text established by Heiberg, Sir Thomas Heath encompasses almost 2,500 years of mathematical and historical study upon Euclid.
\nThis unabridged republication of the original enlarged edition contains the complete English text of all 13 books of the\u00a0Elements,<\/i>\u00a0plus a critical apparatus that analyzes each definition, postulate, and proposition in great detail. It covers textual and linguistic matters; mathematical analyses of Euclid\u2019s ideas; classical, medieval, Renaissance, modern commentators; refutations, supports, extrapolations, reinterpretations, and historical notes, all given with extensive quotes.
\n\u201cThe textbook that shall really replace Euclid has not yet been written and probably never will be.\u201d \u2014\u00a0Encyclopaedia Britannica.
\n<\/i>Volume 1. 151-page Introduction: life and other works of Euclid; Greek and Islamic commentators; surviving mss., scholia, translations; bases of Euclid\u2019s thought. Books I and II of the\u00a0Elements<\/i>, straight lines, angles, intersection of lines, triangles, parallelograms, etc.
\nVolume 2. Books III-IX: Circles, tangents, segments, figures described around and within circles, rations, proportions, magnitudes, polygons, prime numbers, products, plane and solid numbers, series of rations, etc.
\nVolume 3. Books X to XIII: planes, solid angles, etc.; method of exhaustion in similar polygons within circles, pyramids, cones, cylinders, spheres, etc. Appendix: Books XIV, XV, sometimes ascribed to Euclid.<\/p>\n