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Apr 14, 2007 free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by project gutenberg. This unabridged republication of the original enlarged edition contains the complete english text of all books of the elements, plus a critical apparatus that analyzes each definition, postulate, and proposition in great detail. Google is proud to partner with libraries to digitize public domain materials and make them widely accessible. It is a compilation of original work by alnayrizi and of translations and commentaries made by others, such as heron.
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