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Historical, philological, and archival provenance for geometor.hilbert.

Primary Textual Witnesses

• 1899 German Editio Princeps (B. G. Teubner, Leipzig): Published in June 1899 as Part I (Erster Theil, pp. 1–92) of the Festschrift zur Feier der Enthüllung des Gauss-Weber-Denkmals in Göttingen, issued by the Fest-Comitee (together with Emil Wiechert’s Grundlagen der Elektrodynamik). Archived verbatim from Internet Archive identifier grundlagendergeo00hilb and verified by SHA-256 checksum in resources/grundlagen/sources_manifest.json. (Philological note: Project Gutenberg eBook ``#22062`` is John Dee’s 1570 *Mathematicall Praeface to Euclid, not Hilbert’s German text.)*

• 1902 Authorized English Translation (Open Court, Chicago): Translated by Edgar Jerome Townsend, Ph.D. (University of Illinois), incorporating Hilbert’s additions from L. Laugel’s 1900 French edition (Les principes fondamentaux de la géométrie, Gauthier-Villars) and Hilbert’s 1902 Mathematische Annalen memoir on transformation groups. Archived verbatim from Project Gutenberg eBook #17384.

• 1930 Seventh German Edition Concordance: Because Fr. Peter Hoenen, S.J. (De Noetica Geometriae, 1954) cites Hilbert’s revised 7th edition (1930)—in which Groups III and IV are swapped, Axiom II 4 is demoted to Satz 5 after E. H. Moore’s 1902 redundancy proof, flächengleich is renamed zerlegungsgleich, and Streckenübertrager is specialized to Eichmass—every shift is explicitly mapped in the Master Concordance and unit Notes.