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Elements of Geometry: Containing the First Six Books of Euclid, With a Supplement - Couverture souple
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It is a remarkable fact in the history of science, that the oldest book of Elementary Geometry is still considered as the best, and that the writings of Euclid, at the distance of two thousand years, continue to form the most approved introduction to the mathematical sciences. This remarkable distinction the Greek Geometer owes not only to the elegance and correctness of his demonstrations, but to an arrangement most happily contrived for the purpose of instruction, advantages which, when they reach a certain eminence, secure the works of an author against the injuries of time more effectually than even originality of invention. The Elements of Euclid, however, in passing through the hands of the ancient editors during the decline of science, had suffered some diminution of their excellentie, and much skill and learning have been employed by the modern mathematicians to deliver them from blemishes which certainly did not enter into their original composition. Of these mathematicians, Dr. Simson, as he may be accounted the last, has also been the most successful, and has left very little room for the ingenuity of future editors to be exercised in, either by amending the text of Euclid, or by improving the translations from it. Such being the merits of Dr. Simson sedition, and the reception it has met with having been every way suitable, the work now offered to the public will perhaps appear unnecessary. And indeed, if the geometer just named had written with a view of accommodating theE lements of Euclid to the present state of the mathematical sciences, it is not likely that any thing new in Elementaiy Geometry would have been soon attempted. But his design was different; it was his object to restore the writings of Euclid to their original perfection, and to give them toM odern Europe as nearly as possible in the state wherein they made their first appearan
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