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The elements of Euclid; viz. the first six books, together with the eleventh and twelfth. The errors by which Theon, or others, have long vitiated these books, are corrected, and some of Euclid's demonstrations are restored. Also the book o

Book digitized by Google from the library of the University of Michigan and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb. · xii, 513 pages 22 cm · "In this ... edition ... the first six books and the eleventh and twelfth have been printed, with the additional references and corrections from the small edition of 1824; and the Notes and Euclid's Data, from the last octavo ... Short notices of the lives of Euclid, and of ... Dr. Simson, are now, for the first time, prefixed [p. ix-xii], and are chiefly drawn from Dr. Hutton's Mathematical dictionary."--Advertisement, signed: R.N. Adams · "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": pages [261]-332 · The Notes, the Data and The elements of plane and spherical trigonometry have special title pages with imprint: London, Printed for J. Collingwood, and the rest of the proprietors, 1827

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