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EUCLID : EUCLID'S ELEMENTS OF GEOMETRY, FROM THE LATIN TRANSLATION OF

A Mathematical Classic EUCLID. EUCLID'S ELEMENTS OF GEOMETRY, FROM THE LATIN TRANSLATION OF COMMANDINE ...by Doctor John Keil, F.R.S. ... by Mr. Samuel Cunn. London: Printed for Tho. Woodward at the Half-Moon, over- against St. Dunstan's Church in Fleet-Street, 1728. 8vo., [12] + 364 + 37 + [3], + plus 32 plates, 18 folding and 14 with folding figures pasted down. Second edition. Calf, worn, with gilt rules on panels, raised band. Rear hinge cracked, spine chipped, front board detached. Text complete, some dampstaining to bottom corner. Folding and folding figure plates, X of which have folding movable geometrical figures. Ink ownership of John Clarke at top right corner of title page, with pencil annotation "1848" below. Title page continued: "To which is added, a Treatise of the Nature of Arithmetick of Logarithms; Likewise Another of the Elements of Plain and Spherical Trigonometry; With a Preface, shewing the Usefulness and Excellency of this Work. By Doctor John Keil, F.R.S, and late Professor of Astronomy in Oxford. Now done into English. 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. A more Ample Account of which may be seen in Mr. Cunn's Preface. By Mr. Samuel Cunn. The Second Edition, carefully corrected. Needs rebinding.

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