Euclid, The Elements of Geometry (1570)
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Date
1570
Translator
Henry Billingsley Note: 30/09/2005
Lexicon title
Here haue you (according to my promisse) the Groundplat of my Mathematicall Praeface: annexed to Euclide (now first) published in our Englishe tounge. An. 1570. Febr. 3
Book title
The Elements of Geometrie of the most auncient Philosopher Evclide of Megara. Faithfully (now first) translated into the Englishe toung, by H. Billingsley, Citizen of London. Whereunto are annexed certaine Scholics, Annotations, and Inuentions, of the best Mathematicians, both of time past, and in this our age
With a very fruitfull Praeface made by M. I. Dee, specifying the chiefe Mathematicall Scie~ces, what they are, and wherunto commodious[...] where, also, are disclosed certaine new Secrets. Mathematicall and Mech[...]icall, vntill these our daies greatly missed:
Publication place
London
Publisher
Iohn Daye
Transcription source
EEBO/TCP
Text type
printed book
Genre
Hard-word, term-of-art, and dialect dictionaries, glossaries, and definitions
Subject area
mathematics
Language
headwords: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
Extent
Folding sheet at start of book (a3v-b3 for definitions)
Word-group
type: alphabetical
Word-entry
type: headword
sample: THis do I call Anthropographie. Which is an Art restored, and of my preferment to your Seruice. I pray you, thinke of it, as of one of the chief pointes, of Humane knowledge. Although it be, but now, first Confirmed, with this new name: yet the matter, hath from the beginning, ben in consideration of all perfect Philosophers. Anthropographie, is the description of the Number, Measure, Waight, figure, Situation, and colour of euery diuerse thing, conteyned in the perfect body of MAN: with certain knowledge of the Symmetrie, figure, waight, Characterization, and due locall motion, of any parcell of the sayd body, assigned; and of Nunbers, to the sayd parcell appertainyng. (c4r)
sample: THis do I call Anthropographie. Which is an Art restored, and of my preferment to your Seruice. I pray you, thinke of it, as of one of the chief pointes, of Humane knowledge. Although it be, but now, first Confirmed, with this new name: yet the matter, hath from the beginning, ben in consideration of all perfect Philosophers. Anthropographie, is the description of the Number, Measure, Waight, figure, Situation, and colour of euery diuerse thing, conteyned in the perfect body of MAN: with certain knowledge of the Symmetrie, figure, waight, Characterization, and due locall motion, of any parcell of the sayd body, assigned; and of Nunbers, to the sayd parcell appertainyng. (c4r)
Schafer
1570 D; 1570 B [49] B1r-C1v
STC
10560
Criticisms
Larkey, Sanford V. "Scientific Glossaries in Sixteenth Century English Books." Bulletin of the Institute of the History of Medicine 5 (1937): 105-14. 109. view record
Heninger, S. K., Jr. "Tudor Literature of the Physical Sciences." Huntington Library Quarterly 32 (1968-69): 103-33, 249-70. 113-14. view record
Shenton, Walter F. "The First English Euclid." American Mathematical Monthly 25 (1928): 505-12. view record
Taylor, E. G. R. The Mathematical Practitioners of Tudor and Stuart England. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press for the Institute of Navigation, 1954. 18, 320. view record
Heninger, S. K., Jr. "Tudor Literature of the Physical Sciences." Huntington Library Quarterly 32 (1968-69): 103-33, 249-70. 113-14. view record
Shenton, Walter F. "The First English Euclid." American Mathematical Monthly 25 (1928): 505-12. view record
Taylor, E. G. R. The Mathematical Practitioners of Tudor and Stuart England. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press for the Institute of Navigation, 1954. 18, 320. view record
Sources
- Euclid. [Elementa]. Ed. Simon Grynaeus. Basel: Johannes Hervagius, n.d. view record
