Euclid's Elements
Euclid - The thirteen books of the Elements
Contents
Book I – Foundations of Plane Geometry
Book II – The Geometry of Rectangles
Book III – The Geometry of the Circle
Book IV – Regular Polygons in Circles
Book V – The General Theory of Magnitudes in Proportion
Book VI – The Plane Geometry of Similar Figures
Book VII – Basic Arithmetic
Book VIII – Numbers in Continued Proportion
Book IX - Numbers in Continued proportion; the Theory of Even and Odd Numbers, Perfect Numbers
Book X – Incommensurable Line Segments
Book XI – Foundations of Solid Geometry
Book XII – Areas and Volume; Eudoxus’s Method of Exhaustion
Book XIII – The Platonic Solids
Reference
Euclid (1956) The thirteen books of Elements. 2d ed. New York: Dover Publications.
About the Project
Reading Euclid
Euclid's Elements of Geometry in Early Modern Britain
http://readingeuclid.org/about-the-project
Euclid’s Elements of Geometry has enjoyed a very long history of use and study from Hellenistic Alexandria to the present day. For many centuries it has been both a much recognised mathematical text and an important factor in the reception of ancient thought. It has also been critically important in the teaching of mathematics at many times and places, read by individuals ranging from schoolchildren to elite astronomers, from popular playwrights to learned philosophers.
The Elements was particularly visible between 1500 and 1800, around 200 printed editions of the text appeared: roughly one every eighteen months. No mathematical text had such an impact on early modern culture, yet the early modern reception of the Elements has never received sustained scholarly attention. The project remedies this gap by investigating the modes of early modern reception for Euclid’s Elements of Geometry. It will create new understandings of the cultural location(s) occupied by that text during the seventeenth century, through studies of educational, editorial, and readerly practices. By focussing on Britain and Ireland from the appearance (1570) of the first English Elements up to the end of the seventeenth century, it hopes to achieve a balanced study of Euclidean reception considering all the relevant types of evidence.
Reading Euclid is based at the History Faculty, University of Oxford and funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. The project will result in open-access publications, publicly-available datasets and a public exhibition at the Bodleian Library in Oxford.