THE THIRTEEN BOOKS OF EUCLID’S ELEMENTS¶
VOLUME I (Left margin of the Bodleian MS. D’Orville 301 frontispiece facsimile; see [0003.rst](0003.rst) for the full transcription of the scholium and marginal references.)
FRONTISPIECE: BODLEIAN MS. D’ORVILLE 301¶
Facsimile of a page (fol. 45 verso) of the famous Bodleian MS. of the Elements, D’Orville 301 (formerly X. 1 inf. 2, 30), written in the year 888 AD.
Scholium in Margin (Scholia Vaticana, III. No. 15; Heiberg, Vol. V, p. 263)¶
Διὰ τοῦ κέντρου οὐσῶν οὐκ ἦν ζητήσεως ἄξιον, εἰ δίχα τέμνουσιν ἀλλήλας· τὸ γὰρ κέντρον αὐτῶν ἡ διχοτομία. ὁμοίως καὶ ἡ εἰ τῆς ἑτέρας διὰ τοῦ κέντρου οὔσης ἡ ἑτέρα μὴ διὰ τοῦ κέντρου εἴη, ὅτι οὐ δίχα τέμνεται ἡ διὰ τοῦ κέντρου.
(Note: The ἡ before εἰ in the last sentence should be omitted; PFVat. read ἡ without εἰ.)
Marginal References¶
διὰ τὸ α’ τοῦ γ’ (“by III. 1”)
διὰ τὸ γ’ τοῦ αὐτοῦ (“by 3 of the same”)
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TRANSLATED FROM THE TEXT OF HEIBERG
WITH INTRODUCTION AND COMMENTARY
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This Dover edition, first published in 1956, is an unabridged and unaltered republication of the second edition. It is published through special arrangement with Cambridge University Press.
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