The Thirteen Books of the Elements, Vol. 1

Volume 1 of three-volume set containing complete English text of all 13 books of the Elements plus critical apparatus analyzing each definition, postulate, and proposition in great detail. Covers textual and linguistic matters; mathematical analyses of Euclid's ideas; classical, medieval, Renaissance and modern commentators; refutations, supports, extrapolations, reinterpretations and historical notes. Vol. 1 includes Introduction, Books 1-2: Triangles, rectangles.

VOLUME I.
  INTRODUCTION.
    FACSIMILE OF A PAGE OF THE BODLEIAN MS. OF THE ELEMENTS. Frontispiece
    I. EUCLID AND THE TRADITIONS ABOUT HIM
    II. EUCLID'S OTHER WORKS
    III. GREEK COMMENTATORS OTHER THAN PROCLUS
    IV. PROCLUS AND HIS SOURCES
    V. THE TEXT
    VI. THE SCHOLIA
    VII. EUCLID IN ARABIA
    VIII. PRINCIPAL TRANSLATIONS AND EDITIONS
    IX.
      1. ON THE NATURE OF ELEMENTS
      2. ELEMENTS ANTERIOR TO EUCLID'S
      3. "FIRST PRINCIPLES: DEFINITIONS, POSTULATES AND AXIOMS"
      4. THEOREMS AND PROBLEMS
      5. THE FORMAL DIVISIONS OF A PROPOSITION
      6. OTHER TECHNICAL TERMS
      7. THE DEFINITIONS
  THE ELEMENTS.
    "BOOK I. DEFINITIONS, POSTULATES, COMMON NOTIONS"
      NOTES ON DEFINITIONS ETC
      PROPOSITIONS
    BOOK II. DEFINITIONS
      NOTE ON GEOMETRICAL ALGEBRA
      PROPOSITIONS
    EXCURSUS I. PYTHAGORAS AND THE PYTHAGOREANS
    EXCURSUS II. POPULAR NAMES FOR EUCLIDEAN PROPOSITIONS
    GREEK INDEX TO VOL. I.
    ENGLISH INDEX TO VOL. 1.