Euclid

EUCLID. Beginselen der Meetkonst, vervaat in 15 boeken, waar by 't 16 boek Fr. FLUSSATIS CANDALLAE. ... Eerst in onse Nederduytse taal ... opgesteld door Claas Jansz. VOOGHT.Amsterdam, Johannes van Keulen, 1695. 4to. With an engraved allegorical title-page by Casper LUYKEN, a letterpress title-page, and hundreds of woodcut figures in the text. Contemporary vellum.
Early Printing [17th Century],Classical antiquity, Navigation, Science [Mathematics]

(24), 671 pp. <I>Bierens de Haan 5113; V.d. Kellen & Van Eeghen 259; Klaversma & Hannema 473; Karlsruher Virt. Kat. (1 copy); NCC (4 copies); STCN (4 copies).</I> Surprisingly rare first complete Dutch edition of Euclid's <I>Elements of Geometry</I> , including the sixteenth chapter added by Francisco Flussate Candalla for the 1566 Paris edition, all translated and edited by Claas Jansz. Vooght and well illustrated with hundreds of woodcuts. The engraved title-page, unsigned but ascribed to Casper Luyken, shows Athena and Mercury with surveying and navigational instruments, maps, etc., and a sun. moon, stars, putti and other figures above.Euclid had aroused relatively little interest in the Low Countries in the sixteenth century, and the demand for his <I>Elements</I> , limited to a few scholars, could be met with foreign editions. As the Northern Netherlands became a leader in the fields of navigation, cartography and astronomy in the seventeenth century, however, an understanding of geometry became a cornerstone of the Dutch golden age. The first six books appeared in a Dutch translation in 1606, and several abridged translations followed over the decades, but none included even a third of the material presented here. Chapters 13 and 14, though standard in Euclid editions for hundreds of years, are now ascribed to Hypsicles.The editor Vooght (d. 1696) and publisher Van Keulen had worked together to produce their famous marine atlases and pilot books since at least 1678, and it is no coincidence that the 1680 privilege for these publications also included the present Euclid edition, realized only after fifteen years. It is dedicated to Nicolaas Witsen, burgomaster of Amsterdam and patron of practical scholarship in many different fields. Little is known about Vooght, but his publications describe him as a surveyor and teacher of mathematics and navigation.The paper used for the text is slightly browned, with occasional minor foxing, but the book is still in very good condition and the engraved title-page fine. The binding is somewhat dirty, but also very good. The first complete Dutch Euclid, and a landmark in the Dutch study of geometry, especially for the art of navigation.

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Kheirandish, Elaheh: The Arabic Version of Euclid's Optics: Edited and Translated with Historical Introduction and Commentary, Springer, ISBN: 0387985239
neu-new Editorial Reviews\n\nProduct Description\nLike all classical Greek texts on science, Euclid's works on optics initially came to the West mainly through medieval Arabic texts and commentaries. While several Greek versions of the Optika were discovered and translated as early as the sixteenth century, sorting out what may have been Euclid's original has not been easy. This book presents a critical translation of an Arabic texts and of Arabic commentaries on the text, and places the whole in a historical context. The Optics is particularly interesting in that Euclid's text was considerably transformed in the process of translation into Arabic equivalents; in addition, several of the Arabic editions of Euclid's text (c. 300 BC) contained liberal admixtures of a much later book by Ptolemy (c. 200 AD) of the same title. What was referred to as Euclid's Optics, the Kitab Uqlidis fi Ikhtilaf al-manazir, thus became as much an exposition of an Arabic version of a visual theory as a translation of Euclid's ideas on the subject. In preparing this edition, Dr. Kheirandish has thus not only sorted out the various manuscript versions of Al-Manazir, but also related and unrelated texts that were often confused with it.\n\nLanguage Notes\nText: English, Arabic (translation)\nOriginal Language: Arabic , ISBN-13: 9780387985237

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EDITED BY ANTHONY LO BELLO.. The Commentary of al-Nayrizi on Book I of Euclid's Elements of Geometry. BRILL. 2003.. BRILL, 2003. ; fester Einband / hard cover ISBN: 9780391041929
Hardback, xii, 271 pp. one halftone, This listing is a new book, a title currently in-print which we order directly and immediately from the publisher. Cloth - For more than two millennia, the Elements of Geometry by the Greek mathematician Euclid of Alexandria (ca. 300 B.C.E. ) was held to be "the supreme example of the exercise of human reason" and "a paradigm of rational certainty" (from the preface, after Simon Blackburn). The Commentary of al-Nayrizi on Book I of Euclid's Elements of Geometry introduces readers to the transmission of Euclid's Elements from the Middle East to the Latin West in the medieval period and then offers the first English translation of al-Nayrizi's (d. ca. 922) Arabic commentary on Book I.The Three Volumes are also available as set (ISBN 0 391 04197 5) - with an Introduction on the Transmission of Euclid's Elements in the Middle Ages - 1.

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Euclid Maintenance Manual, Great Britain Euclid (Great Britain) Ltd. ; weicher Einband / soft cover; 1. Ed.
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Book description: Euclid Maintenance Manual, Service Manual for models B 3 FD - B 4 FD, B 5 FD - B 6 FD, 9.7 CU. YDS. Rear Dump. 33 sections each with own numbered pages. Fully illustrated with B&W images and drawings. Book condition: General wear and creasing to the covers. 3" x 3" loss to the lower front corner. Open and closed tears to the head and heel of the spine. Bumping to the head and heel of the spine and the corners of the book. Staples inside are rusted. Name to first page. General staining and creasing to the text block due to normal use. Light insect damage and some pencil drawings to the last page. First Edition No Jacket Pictorial Wrappers Folio Soft Cover; First Edition

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