Elementa geometria.
Contributors: Adelard, of Bath, ca. 1116-1142.; Campano, da Novara, d. 1296.; John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: Erhard Ratdolt
Published: 1482
Place of publication: Venice
Language: lat
Number of pages: 138
Subjects: Mathematics, Greek.; Geometry -- Early works to 1800.
Genres: Early works to 1800.
Notes: Goff E-113
Hain-Copinger 6693
BM 15th cent., V, p. 285 (IB.20513)
GW 9428 (later issue)
Translated from Arabic by Adelardus, of Bath; edited by Giovanni Campano.
While books I-XIII are genuine (cf. Th. Heath. The thirteen books of Euclid's Elements. 1956, v. 3, p. 519), book XIV is a work of the 2d cent. Hypsicles and book XV, the work of a 6th cent. Roman land-surveyor.
Printed in red and black. The diagrams are set in a wide margin close to the theorems to which they relate.