Euclid in Greek: Volume 1 - Book I

Klappentext This 1920 volume contains book one of Euclid's Elements in Greek, together with an introduction and notes written in English. Zusammenfassung This 1920 volume contains book one of Euclid's Elements in Greek! together with an introduction and notes written in English. It was created to provide young students with a contextual understanding of geometry and the development of geometrical principles! one which was increasingly neglected in the standard school textbooks of the time. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I. Introduction: 1. Euclid; 2. Works other than the Elements; 3. Earlier writers of Elements; 4. Contents of Euclid's Elements; 5. The Elements in Greece; 6. Changes in the text; 7. Later history of the Elements; 8. Euclid in education; Part II. Greek Text of Book I; Notes; Index of Greek names; Index of proper names.

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• Authors: Sir Thomas Heath, Sir Thomas L. Heath, Thomas L. Heath
• Assisted by: Thomas L. Heath (Editor), Heath Thomas L. (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.02.2011
• EAN: 9780521183475
• ISBN: 978-0-521-18347-5
• No. of pages: 250
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Ancient Greece, HISTORY / Ancient / Greece, Ancient History, Classical history / classical civilisation