The First Six Books of the Elements of Euclid
by John Casey, Euclid
Publisher: Longmans, Green, and Co. 1885
ISBN/ASIN: 143656252X
Number of pages: 233
Description:
This edition of the Elements of Euclid, undertaken at the request of the principals of some of the leading Colleges and Schools of Ireland, is intended to supply a want much felt by teachers at the present day -- the production of a work which, while giving the unrivaled original in all its integrity, would also contain the modern conceptions and developments of the portion of Geometry over which the Elements extend.
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