Euclidis elementorum libri XV.
Subtitle: Accessit XVI. De solidorum regularium comparatione : Omnes perspicuis demonstrationibus, accuratisâq[ue] scholijs illustrati
By: Auctore Christophoro Clauio Bambergensi. Societatis Iesu
Contributors: Clavius, Christoph, 1538-1612; Hypsicles, of Alexandria; Candale, François de Foix, comte de, 1502-1594.
Series: Landmarks II, monographs
Publisher: Apud Vincentium Accoltum
Published: 1574
Place of publication: Romae
Language: lat
Format: Microform
Subjects: Geometry -- Early works to 1800; Mathematics, Greek; Mathematics -- Early works to 1800
Genres: Early works to 1800
Other titles: De solidorum regularium comparatione; Evclidis elementorvm libri XV; Elementorum libri XV; Elementorvm libri XV
Work titles: Elements.
Notes: Translation of: Elements

Engraved t.p. within ornamental border; text within line borders

Vol. 2 has title: Euclidis Posteriores libri sex a X. ad XV. : Accessit XVI. De solidorum regularium comparatione

Book 14 is attributed to Hypsicles (2nd cent. B.C.); book 15 is attributed to a student of Isidore of Miletus (6th-7th cent. B.C.). Cf. Dict. scientific biog., v. 4, p. 433; Oxford classical dict. (2nd ed.), p. 413

The sixteenth book of the Elements was added by "Flussas", i.e. François de Foix, comte de Candale

"Première édition du célèbre commentaire de Clavius"--Grässe

Vol. 2 has colophon (on leaf 300 recto) which reads: Romae, Apud Vincentium Accoltum. M.D.LXXIIII. Cum licentia Superiorum

Colophon of v. 2 surmounted by printer's device, an eagle and eaglet gazing at the sun, with motto: Sic crede

Vol. 1: [40], 331, [1] leaves (the last leaf blank); v. 2: 300 leaves

Errata: v. 1, leaf [16] verso (1st group)

Grässe, II, p. 512

Riccardi, P. Saggio di bib. euclidea, p. 24-25

Thomas-Stanford, C. Early editions of Euclid's Elements, 19

Microfiche. New Canaan, Conn. : Readex Microprint, [1994]. 27 microfiches. (Landmarks II).