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  • Volume 1 of 3-volume set containing complete English text of all 13 books of the "Elements" plus critical apparatus analyzing each definition, postulate, and proposition. Covers textual and linguistic matters; mathematical analyses of Euclid's ideas; commentators; refutations, supports, extrapolations, reinterpretations, and historical notes. Vol. 1 includes Introduction, Books I and II of "Elements," lines, angles, intersections, etc.