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Euclid  : The Elements

before breakfast, props.24+25 lib. Euclid

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Lister      Print: Book

  

Euclid  : The Elements

between 1 and 2, the first 7 propositions of the 1st book of Euclid, with which I mean to renew my acquaintance and to proceed diligentlyin the hope that [...], may sometime attain a tolerable efficiency in mathematical studies[...] &

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Lister      Print: Book

  

Euclid  : First book of geometry

'Early examples of [Gabriel Harvey's] marginalia in [the fields of cosmology and astronomy] are found in the large 1527 folio containing Sacrobosco's "Textus de Sphaera", Bonetus's "Annuli ... super astrologiam" [...] and Euclid's first book of geometry translated into Latin by Boethius. On the title-page is Harvey's signature and the date "1580", which seems to have been the period for many of his annotations in this volume.'

Century: 1500-1599     Reader/Listener/Group: Gabriel Harvey      Print: Book

  

Euclid  : 

'As if she had not already enough to occupy her mind [with business and legal affairs following her first husband's death in November 1852] Lady Charlotte now suddenly developed an enthusiasm for the study of Euclid, and a number of daily entries in her journal begin in the following way: '"May 4 [1853]. Down at 7. Ivor [teenaged son] has given me an hour's Euclid.'"

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Charlotte and Ivor Guest     Print: Book

  

Euclid  : 

14 June 1853: 'Another lovely morning, Euclid tilll 8.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Charlotte Guest      Print: Book

  

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'At Dowlais again alone [following period spent in London and elsewhere], the day's record started prosaically: "Works journal till 8, then Euclid till 9."'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Charlotte Guest      Print: Book

 

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