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Principle Source Publisher Edition of Euclid's Elements

Principle Source Publisher Edition of Euclid's Elements

Euclid
Hayes, David B.

Paperback

General Mathematics

ISBN13: 9798362645236
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Nov 8 2022
Pages: 90
Weight: 0.51
Height: 0.19 Width: 8.50 Depth: 11.00
Language: English
Henry Billingsley was the translator and publication sponsor for the first English version of Euclid's Elements. He describes the motivation for his work in the note to his readers:
There is (gentle reader) nothing (the Word of God only set apart) which so much beautifies and adorns the soul and mind of man, as the knowledge of good arts and sciences.... Many other arts also there are which beautify the mind of man: but of all other none does more garnish and beautify it than those arts which are called Mathematical. Unto the knowledge of which no man can attain without the perfect knowledge and instruction of the principles, grounds, and Elements of Geometry. But perfectly to be introduced into them requires diligent study and reading of old ancient authors. Among which, none for a beginner is to be preferred before the most ancient philosopher Euclide.... So that without the diligent study of Euclid's Elements, it is impossible to attain to the perfect knowledge of Geometry, and consequently of any of the other mathematical sciences.... I have for their sakes, with some charge and great travail, faithfully translated into our vulgar tongue, and set abroad in print, this book of Euclid.

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