num_pages: 464
description: Volume 1 of 3-volume set containing complete English text of all 13 books of the Elements plus critical apparatus analyzing each definition, postulate, and proposition in great detail. Covers textual and linguistic matters; mathematical analyses of Euclid's ideas; commentators; refutations, supports, extrapolations, reinterpretations and historical notes. Vol. 1 includes Introduction, Books 1-2: Triangles, rectangles.
language: None
title: The Thirteen Books of the Elements, Books 1 - 2
titlecomplete: The Thirteen Books of the Elements, Books 1 - 2
genres: Classics, Mathematics, History, Geometry, Philosophy, Reference, Science, Textbooks, Nonfiction, Academic
ratings_count: 444
series: The Elements
publisher: Dover Publications