Euclid Vindicated from Every Blemish : Edited and Annotated by Vincenzo De Risi. Translated by G.B. Halsted and L. Allegri
- 種類:
- 電子ブック
- 責任表示:
- by Gerolamo Saccheri ; edited by Vincenzo Risi
- 出版情報:
- Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Birkhäuser, 2014
- 著者名:
- シリーズ名:
- Classic Texts in the Sciences ; 1
- ISBN:
- 9783319059662 [3319059661]
- 注記:
- This first complete English language edition of Euclides vindicatus presents a corrected and revised edition of the classical English translation of Saccheri's text by G.B. Halsted. It is complemented with a historical introduction on the geometrical environment of the time and a detailed commentary that helps to understand the aims and subtleties of the work. Euclides vindicatus, written by the Jesuit mathematician Gerolamo Saccheri, was published in Milan in 1733. In it, Saccheri attempted to reform elementary geometry in two important directions: a demonstration of the famous Parallel Postulate, and the theory of proportions. Both topics were of pivotal importance in the mathematics of the time. In particular, the Parallel Postulate had escaped demonstration since the first attempts at it in the Classical Age, and several books on the topic were published in the Early Modern Age. At the same time, the theory of proportion was the most important mathematical tool of the Galilean School in its pursuit of the
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