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| Title: | The elements of Euclid : viz. the first six books, together with the eleventh and twelfth : the errors, by which Theon, or others, have long ago vitiated these books, are corrected, and some of Euclid's demonstrations are restored : also, the book of Euclid's Data, in like manner corrected/ by Robert Simson. -- To this edition are also annxed, Elements of plane and spherical trigonometry.-- |
| Author: | Euclid. |
| Pub Info: | Philadelphia : Published by Johnson and Warner, and sold at their bookstores in Philadelphia, Richmond, (Vir.) and Lexington, (Ken.), 1811 |
| LOCATION: | SPC 2 |
| CALL #: | 516.2 E86eL1811 |
| STATUS: | Needs Staff Retrieval |
| Description: | viii, [9]-518 p., 3 leaves ofplates.:ill. and fold. ill.; 22 cm. |
| Note: | There are added title pages for Notes, critical and geometrical : containing an account of those things in which this edition differs from the Greek text, and the reasons of the alterations which have been made, as also observations on some of the propositions/ by Robert Simson. -- Philadelphia : Johnson and Warner, 1811 (p. [295]); and Euclid's data : in this edtion, several errors are corrected, and some propositions added/ by Robert Simson.-- Plates I and II missing. Spine title: Simson's Euclid. |
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| Significance: | "This work, which contained only the first six and the eleventh and twelfth books, and to which, in its English version, he added the Data in 1762, was for long the standard text of Euclid in England." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Simson |
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