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GOOD: These books are in good condition, showing only the slightest signs of use and wear. All three volumes are free of writing.
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From the back cover: “This unabridged republication of the original enlarged edition contains the complete English text of all 13 books of the Elements, plus a critical apparatus which analyzes each definition, postulate, and proposition in great detail. It covers textual and linguistic matters; mathematical analyses of Euclid’s ideas; classical, medieval, Renaissance, modern commentators; refutations, supports, extrapolations, reinterpretations, and historical notes, all given with extensive quotes.
“Volume 1. 151-page introduction: life and other works of Euclid; Greek and Islamic commentators; surviving mss., scholia, translations; bases of Euclid’s thought. Books I, II of the Elements: straight lines, intersection of lines, angles, triangles, parallelograms, etc. Appendix. Indices. 540 footnotes. 264 figures. xii + 432pp.
“Volume 2. Books III to IX: circles, tangents, segments, figures described around and within circles, ratios, proportions, magnitudes, polygons, prime numbers, products, plan and solid numbers, series of ratios, etc. Indices. 368 figures. 436pp.
“Volume 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. Index to all volumes. 363 figures. 564pp.”