Euclidis Elementorum Geometricorum Libri Sex Conversi In Latinum Sermonem A Ioach Camerario

by Georg Joachim Rheticus

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First edition

Leipzig; Paris; Paris: Valentin Bapst; Guillaume Cavellat; Guillaume Cavellat, 1549; 1556; 1552. First edition of the Greek and Latin Euclid that Rheticus edited for his own students at Leipzig in the year after he returned to his chair there, here in one contemporary volume with two Paris textbooks on the sphere. An early hand has worked through the definitions, postulates and common notions of Book I page by page,

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