The Elements of Euclid, Viz, The First Six Books: Together with the Eleventh and Twelfth, The Errors, by Which Theon, or Others, Have Long Ago Vitiate

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Excerpt from The Elements of Euclid, Viz, The First Six Books: Together With the Eleventh and Twelfth, The Errors, by Which Theon, or Others, Have Long Ago Vitiated These Books, Are Corrected, and Some of Euclid's Demonstrations Are Restored, Also, the Book of Euclid's Data, in Like Manner CorrectedIn this edition, Ptolemy's Proposition concerning a property of quadrilateral figures in a circle, is added at the end of the sixth Book. Also the Note on the 29th Proposition, Book 1st, is altered, and made more ex plicit, and a more general Demonstration is given, in stead of that which was in the Note on the l0th Defi nition of Book 11th, besides, the Translation is much amended by the friendly assistance of a learned gen tleman.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.