Front cover image for Euclide's Elements : the whole fifteen books compendiously demonstrated ; with Archimedes's theorems of the sphere and cylinder, investigated by the method of indivisibles, also Euclide's Data, and a brief treatise of regular solids

Euclide's Elements : the whole fifteen books compendiously demonstrated ; with Archimedes's theorems of the sphere and cylinder, investigated by the method of indivisibles, also Euclide's Data, and a brief treatise of regular solids

Print Book, English, 1751
printed for W. and J. Mount, and T. Page; and C. Hitch and L. Lawes; R. Manby and S. Cox; E. Comyns; J. and J. Rivington; and J. Ward, London, 1751
Early works
[4], 366 p., [9] leaves of plates ; 21 cm.
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First published without the additions: London : R. Daniel, for William Nealand, 1660
The earliest use of the word "ratio" cited in the Oxford English Dictionary is from this translation of Euclid's Elements, Book V, Definition 3
"Barrow's Euclid was used as a standard textbook for at least half a century"--cf. Simkins, Diana M. Early editions of Euclid in England, in Annals of science, vol. 22, no 4, 1966
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