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Byrne's edition of Euclid's Elements
Introduction
Byrne's Introduction
Dedication
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Heath's Introductory chapters
Chapter I
Euclid and the traditions about him
Chapter II
Euclid's other works
Chapter III
Greek commentators other than Proclus
Chapter IV
Proclus and his sources
Chapter V
The text
Chapter VI
The scholia
Chapter VII
Euclid in Arabia
Chapter VIII
Principal translations and editions
Chapter IX
- On the nature of elements
- Elements anterior to Euclid's
- First prinnciples: definitions, postulates, and axioms
- Theorems and problems
- The formal divisions of a proposition
- Other technical terms
- The defintions