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T.L. Heath The 13 Books of Euclids Elements 3 vol. Cambridge, 1908.
R. Graves -Penguin ed 1950
Elements (Stoichcial 13 books)
THe oldest mathematical textbooks sitll in common use today.
1-6 - plane geometry
7-9 - on the theory of numbers
10-on irrational numbers
11-13 on solid geometry (Books 14+15 see are by Hypricles (fl. 2nd C B.C.) +
a pupil of Isidors of Siville, respectively)
-in the version of Campano de Novara, a translation from
Arabic into Latin presumably derived from the 12th C
translation of Abelherd of Bath together to notes by
Campano.
-First e. One of the earliest printed books to geometrical figures.
Ratdolt's method of printing diagrams to illustrate a
mathematical text + his equally beautiful astronomy books
became the models for subsequent scientific publishing.
-There is doubt whether the diagrams are woodcuts: some or all
may have been produced from metal lines.
-There is doubt whether the diagrams are woodcuts; some or all
may have been produced from metal lines.
-7 copies fo the works are recorded which have the dedication
leaf of the book printed in Gold, Radold was one of 2 printers
in the 15th C. to have used the technique for gold printing;
the other was Zacherias Callierges, a Getan who also worked in Venice.
-Ratdolt here solves the technical problem of producing the
essential marginal diagrams together to the text which
had hitherto prevented the printing of Euclid - Ratdolt
was one fo the most original + accomplished of the early
printers.
Type 91 G-med. text type, rather narrow plain Capitals. Large waved F, large I
to thorn to left. Min 2 parts. Single step hyphen. Captials from 92 G
sometimes found admixed. In use 1481+82.
56(75)G - small text type to plain capitals. F is too large + senated
to left. Slaping double hyphen. In use 1481+2.