The Book of Wonders - The Many Lives of Euclid's Elements

Euclid's Elements of Geometry was a book that changed the world. In a sweeping history, Benjamin Wardhaugh traces how an ancient Greek text on mathematics - often hailed as the world's first textbook - shaped two thousand years of art, philosophy and literature, as well as science and maths.

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Benjamin Wardhaugh

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Euclid’s Elements of Geometry was a book that changed the world. In a sweeping history, Benjamin Wardhaugh traces how an ancient Greek text on mathematics – often hailed as the world’s first textbook – shaped two thousand years of art, philosophy and literature, as well as science and maths.

Product details

• Authors: Benjamin Wardhaugh
• Publisher: William Collins
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2020
• EAN: 9780008299903
• ISBN: 978-0-00-829990-3
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 240 mm x 38 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Mathematics > General, dictionaries; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, History of Ideas, HISTORY / Civilization, Ancient Greece, EDUCATION / History, MATHEMATICS / Geometry / Algebraic, HISTORY / Ancient / Greece, HISTORY / Study & Teaching, Italy, c 1500 onwards to present day, History of Science, Philosophy of Mathematics, Ancient History, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, History of mathematics, Modern Period, C 1500 Onwards, BCE to c 500 CE, BCE period – Protohistory, Euclidean geometry