Elementa geometriae. [Translated from the Arabic by Adelard of Bath (c. 1080-c. 1152). Edited by Giovanni Campano da Novara (1220-96).]
Venice: Erhard Ratdolt, 25th May 1482. First edition of the “oldest mathematical textbook still in common use today” (PMM), This book “has exercised an influence upon the human mind greater than that of any other work except the Bible” (DSB). Euclid’s Elements is the only work of classical antiquity to..... More
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