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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Volume 1 of 3-volume set containing complete English text of all 13 books of the <i>Elements</i> plus critical analysis of each definition, postulate, and proposition. Vol. 1 includes Introduction, Books I and II: Triangles, rectangles.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>This is the definitive edition of one of the very greatest classics of all time -- 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.<br>This unabridged republication of the original enlarged edition contains the complete English text of all 13 books of the <i>Elements, </i> plus a critical apparatus that 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.<br>"The textbook that shall really replace Euclid has not yet been written and probably never will be." -- <i>Encyclopaedia Britannica.<br></i>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 and II of the <i>Elements</i>, straight lines, angles, intersection of lines, triangles, parallelograms, etc.<br>Volume 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.<br>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.

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