Great Books, Volume 11: Euclid's Elements + The Works of Archimedes

Quarter bound in leather, with green cloth covered boards and gold print in green blocks on spine. Pages are clean and unmarked, with top edges gilt. Encyclopedia Britannica Great Books of the Western World Volume 11, first edition (29th printing 1987), 848 pages. 8vo (6.5" x 9.5") Contents: Euclid: The Thirteen Books of Euclid's Elements; Archimedes: On the Sphere and Cylinder, Measurement of a Circle, On Conoids and Spheroids, On Spirals, On the Equilibrium of Planes, The Sand-Reckoner, The Quadrature of the Parabola, On Floating Bodies. Book of Lemmas. and The Method Treating of Mechanical Problems; Apollonius of Perga: On Conic Sections; Nicomachus of Gerasa: Introduction to Arithmetic. The Euclid and Archimedes are translated by Sir Thomas L. Heath, and are licensed from Cambridge University Press. Apollonius is translated by R. Catesby Taliaferro. Nichomachus is translated by Martin L. D'Ooge. SKU: 09152503euclidvol11vr