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Euclid's elements of geometry / from the Latin translation of Commandine, to which is added, a treatise of the nature and arithmetic of logarithms, likewise another of the elements of plane and spherical trigonometry, with a preface, shewing the usefulness and excellency of the work, by Doctor John Keill ... ; the whole revised, where deficient, supplied, where lost or corrupted, restored, also, many faults committed by Dr. Harris, Mr. Caswell, Mr. Heynes, and other trigonometrical writers, are shewn, and in those cases where they are mistaken, here are given solutions geometrically true, an ample account of which may be seen in the preface, by Samuel Cunn.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Euclid.
- Standardized Title:
- Elements. Books 1-6. English. 1754
- Language:
- English
- Greek, Ancient (to 1453)
- Latin
- Subjects (All):
- Geometry--Early works to 1800.
- Geometry.
- Mathematics, Greek.
- Trigonometry--Early works to 1800.
- Trigonometry.
- Logarithms--Early works to 1800.
- Logarithms.
- Genre:
- Booksellers' advertisements -- England -- 18th century.
- Penn Provenance:
- Biddle, Clement (Autograph)
- May, Thomas (Autograph)
- Carlisle College (Inscription)
- Dickinson College (Inscription)
- Physical Description:
- 16 unnumbered pages, 399 pages, 1 unnumbered page, 18 unnumbered folded leaves of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm (8vo)
- Edition:
- The seventh edition, carefully revised and corrected, to which is subjoined an appendix, containing the investigation of those series omitted by the author, and the difference between Dr. Keill and Mr. Cunn impartially examined and adjusted.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Printed for T. and T. Longman, C. Hitch and L. Hawes, A. Millar, J. and J. Rivington, and M. Cooper, 1754.
- Notes:
- Translation of: Books 1-6 and 11-12 of Euclid's Elements.
- Advertisement on last page.
- Local Notes:
- Imperfect: plate opposite p. 18 mutilated.
- Contains:
- Euclid. Elements. Book 11-12. English. 1754.
- OCLC:
- 16110552
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