Encounters with Euclid : how an ancient Greek geometry text shaped the world

Encounters with Euclid : how an ancient Greek geometry text shaped the world / Benjamin Wardhaugh.

In this lively and informative book, Benjamin Wardhaugh explains how Euclid's text journeyed from antiquity to the Renaissance, introducing some of the many readers, copyists, and editors who left their mark on the Elements before handing it on. He shows how some read the book as a work of phil...

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Main Author: Wardhaugh, Benjamin, 1979- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, 2021.
Subjects:
Euclid. > Elements.
Mathematics > Early works to 1800.
Geometry.
Early works.
Uniform Title:Book of wonders

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