The Rediscovery of Euclid's Elements
Overview
The principal Greek compendium of geometry, Euclid's Elements, was translated into Arabic in the ninth century. Muslim mathematicians were t...
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In the following excerpt—with translation by Drabkin and notes by Cohen and Drabkin, Proclus offers a brief overview of geometry, from that of the ancient Egyptians up to that of Euclid'...
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In the following essay, Knorr explores, through Elements, the role of authorial meaning in critical analysis and argues that mathematical historians often make the mistake of reading ancient texts in ...
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In the following essay, Berggren and Thomas discuss the objectives and content of Phaenomena, suggesting that Euclid's application of spherics to questions of astronomy implies that some study ...
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In the following introductory chapters to the translated text of Elements, Heath offers an overview of Euclid's life; provides a brief survey of his writings; and reviews early commentary on El...
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In the following excerpt, Eves and Newsom review the formal nature and significance of Elements, arguing that the work offers the earliest extensive development of the axiomatic method, and that the i...
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In the following essay, delivered as a paper in 1972 and published in 1974, Mueller examines the nature of Euclidean reasoning (as evidenced in Elements), and its relationship to Aristotle's sy...
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In the following essay, Seidenberg challenges the assumption that Euclid, in Elements, developed geometry on an axiomatic basis. Seidenberg argues that, by insisting on this assumption, the work is vi...
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The Rediscovery of Euclid's Elements
Critical Essay by Proclus Diadochus
