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The school of Athens: a gathering of ancient philosophers. Engraving by G. Mochetti after Raphael.

Euclid. Line engraving.

Mathematicians: Ptolemy, Pythagoras, Euclid, Nicomachus, Aristoxenus and Iamblichus. Engraving after J. van Steegeren, 1667 or 1668.

Mathematicians and astronomers: twenty portraits. Engraving by J.W. Cook, 1825.

Euclid. Line engraving by Beyssent after Mlle. Cl. Reydellet.

Astronomy: Ptolemy and Euclid with an armillary sphere between them. Engraving.

A young woman engrossed in raptures at her desk, with her hands in her lap: a man [a servant?] appears in the background. Mezzotint, 1772.

Euclid in China : the genesis of the first Chinese translation of Euclid's Elements, books I-VI (Jihe yuanben, Beijing, 1607) and its reception up to 1723 / by Peter M. Engelfriet.

Euclides reformatus : la teoria delle proporzioni nella scuola galileiana / Enrico Giusti.

Elementale geometricium, ex Euclidis Geometria, a Joanne Voegelin, ad omnium mathematices studiosorum utilitatem decerptum / [Euclid].

Euclidis Elementorum libri XV. Accessit liber XVI. De solidorum regularium cuiuslibet intra quodlibet comparatione ... nunc quartò editi, ac multarum rerum accessione post primam editionem locupletati / Auctore Christophoro Clauio....

Opusculum repertorii prognosticon in mutationes aeris. Add: Pseudo- Hippocrates: Libellus de medicorum astrologia (Tr: Petrus de Abano)

Les quinze livres des éléments d'Euclide, traduicts de latin en françois / . Avec un sommaire et abbregé de l'algebre, qui sert à faciliter l'intelligence du dixiesme livre. Par D. Henrion...

De propositien van de XV boucken der elementen Euclidis overgeset en tsamenghestelt, met corte verclaringen sommiger propositien, door F.V. Schooten

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Euclid

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Elementale geometricium, ex Euclidis Geometria, a Joanne Voegelin, ad omnium mathematices studiosorum utilitatem decerptum / [Euclid].

Euclidis Elementorum libri XV. Accessit liber XVI. De solidorum regularium cuiuslibet intra quodlibet comparatione ... nunc quartò editi, ac multarum rerum accessione post primam editionem locupletati / Auctore Christophoro Clauio....

Opusculum repertorii prognosticon in mutationes aeris. Add: Pseudo- Hippocrates: Libellus de medicorum astrologia (Tr: Petrus de Abano)

Les quinze livres des éléments d'Euclide, traduicts de latin en françois / . Avec un sommaire et abbregé de l'algebre, qui sert à faciliter l'intelligence du dixiesme livre. Par D. Henrion...

De propositien van de XV boucken der elementen Euclidis overgeset en tsamenghestelt, met corte verclaringen sommiger propositien, door F.V. Schooten

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Euclid

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Elementale geometricium, ex Euclidis Geometria, a Joanne Voegelin, ad omnium mathematices studiosorum utilitatem decerptum / [Euclid].

Euclidis Elementorum libri XV. Accessit liber XVI. De solidorum regularium cuiuslibet intra quodlibet comparatione ... nunc quartò editi, ac multarum rerum accessione post primam editionem locupletati / Auctore Christophoro Clauio....

Opusculum repertorii prognosticon in mutationes aeris. Add: Pseudo- Hippocrates: Libellus de medicorum astrologia (Tr: Petrus de Abano)

Les quinze livres des éléments d'Euclide, traduicts de latin en françois / . Avec un sommaire et abbregé de l'algebre, qui sert à faciliter l'intelligence du dixiesme livre. Par D. Henrion...

De propositien van de XV boucken der elementen Euclidis overgeset en tsamenghestelt, met corte verclaringen sommiger propositien, door F.V. Schooten

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