The Thirteen Books of Euclid's Elements

Vol. 3 (Books Ⅹ-XIII) , #03

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Paperback, 546 pages

English language

Published June 1, 1956 by Dover Publications.

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978-0-486-60090-1
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Volume 3 of three-volume set containing complete English text of all 13 books of the Elements plus critical apparatus analyzing each definition, postulate, and proposition in great detail. Covers textual and linguistic matters; mathematical analyses of Euclid's ideas; classical, medieval, Renaissance and modern commentators; refutations, supports, extrapolations, reinterpretations and historical notes. Vol. 3 includes Books X-XIII: Commensurable magnitudes, solids, cones, cylinders.

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This one's book to of a theoretical trilogy, but there is a book 0 and apparently a book three… I have no idea what book 3 would consist of! I think that `books 0 and 1 were assumed, but I was able to catch up on that knowledge through clues later. Overall, what there was made a great story, but the last two chapters SHOULD have been epilogue! They do not add to the story itself, just rounded out and finished up! I do need to go back and look to see if there really is a book 3 – which there definitely should not be!

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