The elements of geometrie of the most auncient philosopher Euclide of Megara. Faithfully (now first) translated into the Englishe toung, by H. Billingsley, citizen of London. Whereunto are annexed certaine scholies, annotations, and inuentions, of the best mathematiciens, both of time past, and in this our age. With a very fruitfull præface made by M. I. Dee, specifying the chiefe mathematicall scie[n]ces, what they are, and wherunto commodious: where, also, are disclosed certaine new secrets mathematicall and mechanicall, vntill these our daies, greatly missed
| Author/creator | Euclid |
| Other author | Dee, John, 1527-1608. |
| Other author | Candale, François de Foix, comte de, 1502-1594. |
| Other author | Billingsley, Henry, Sir, d. 1606. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Imprinted at London : By Iohn Daye, [1570 (3 Feb.]] |
| Description | [28], 203, 205-464, [1] leaves, folded table : ill. |
| Supplemental Content | https://search.proquest.com/docview/2240886511 |
| Subjects |
| Uniform title | Elements. English |
| Variant title | Elements. |
| Series | Early English books online. ^A888680 |
| General note | With a sixteenth book added by François de Foix, comte de Candale. |
| General note | Colophon reads: At London printed by Iohn Daye, dvvelling ouer Aldersgate beneath Saint Martins. These bookes are to be solde at his shop vnder the gate. 1570. |
| General note | The folded table, dated 25 Feb. 1570 and showing the topics covered in Dee's preface, gives the date of the book's publication as 3 Feb. |
| General note | Book 11 has onlays intended to be pasted at one edge over the illustrations. These were printed together on six bifolia. Variant: these bifolia are still intact and bound with book. |
| General note | The last leaf is blank. |
| General note | Reproduction of the original in the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery. |
| References | STC (2nd ed.) 10560. |
| Citation/References note | Thomas-Stanford, C. Early eds. of Euclid's Elements, 41. |
| Reproduction note | Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1999- (Early English books online) Digital version of: (Early English books, 1475-1640 ; 342:05) |
| Stock number | CL0036000011 ProQuest. 789 E. Eisenhower Parkway, Ann Arbor, MI 48108-3218 |