MAU23302 - Euclidean and Non-Euclidean Geometry: Resources relevant to Euclid's Elements of Geometry

Manuscripts of Euclid's Elements of Geometry

• Vatican manuscript (Vat.gr.190.pt.1) including Euclid's Elements of Geometry (10th century C.E., and the only surviving medieval manuscript copy in Greek not descended from the edition of Theon of Alexandria)
• Bodleian Library MS. D'Orville 301 (Euclid's Elements of Geometry Books I-XV (Stephanos the clerk, 888 C.E.)
• One of the oldest extant diagrams from Euclid (Bill Casselman, University of British Columbia)

Early printed editions of Euclid's Elements of Geometry

• The elements of geometrie of the most auncient philosopher Evclide of Megara (Sir Henry Billingsley and John Dee, U.S. Library of Congress)

The Greek Text of Euclid's Elements of Geometry

• Euclid's Elements, The original Greek text (Dimitrios E. Mourmouras)
• Euclid's Elements of Geometry: The Greek Text of J.L. Heiberg, edited, and provided with a modern English translation, by Richard Fitzpatrick (University of Texas)

Thomas L. Heath's Translation of Euclid's Elements of Geometry

• Euclid's Elements (David E. Joyce, Clark University)

Accounts of Euclid's Elements of Geometry

• Review of Peyrard's edition of Euclid's Elements, by Augustus De Morgan (Dublin Review, 1841)
• The First Translation of Euclid's Elements into English and its Source (R.C. Archibald, Brown University, 1950)

The History of Greek Geometry

• Greek Geometry from Thales to Euclid, by George Johnston Allman (1824—1904) (Internet Archive)
• A Short History of Greek Mathematics, by James Gow (1854—1923) (Internet Archive)
• Hippocrates of Chios – His Elements and His Lunes, by Jens Høyrup (Roskilde University) (AIMS Mathematics, 2019)

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Dr. David R. Wilkins, School of Mathematics, Trinity College Dublin.