Bibliographia et Fontes (Systematic Bibliography)

Public-Domain Critical Editions, Primary Witnesses, and Projective Studies

This registry catalogues all 18 primary editions and foundational treatises cited across geometor-menelaus. Every inline :cite: tag resolves directly to its #cite-<slug> anchor below and displays hover metadata automatically. All primary Greek, Latin, and German textual witnesses predating 1929 are in the worldwide public domain.

Primary Editions & Ancient Witnesses of Menelaus

Menelai Sphaericorum Libri III (halley-1758)

  • Author / Editor: Menelaus of Alexandria; Edmond Halley (ed.); George Costard (pref.)

  • Edition / Locus: Oxonii (Oxford): Sumptibus Academicis, 1758 (pp. [i]–[viii], 1–112; PD)

Praefatio ‘Benevolo Lectori’ in Menelai Sphaericorum Libri III (costard-1758)

  • Author / Editor: Costard, George (1710 – 1782)

  • Edition / Locus: Oxford, 1758, pp. [i]–[viii] (scans 9–16; PD)

Syntaxis Mathematica (Almagest), Book I, Ch. 13: Προλαμβανόμενα εἰς τὰς σφαιρικὰς δείξεις (ptolemy-almagest-i-13)

  • Author / Editor: Claudius Ptolemy; J. L. Heiberg (ed.)

  • Edition / Locus: Vol. I, Pars I, Leipzig: Teubner, 1898, pp. 68–76 (PD)

Syntaxis Mathematica (Almagest), Book VII, Ch. 3 (Menelaus’s 98 CE Observations at Rome) (ptolemy-almagest-vii-3)

  • Author / Editor: Claudius Ptolemy; J. L. Heiberg (ed.)

  • Edition / Locus: Vol. I, Pars II, Leipzig: Teubner, 1903, pp. 25–30 (PD)

Studien über Menelaos’ Sphärik. Beiträge zur Geschichte der Sphärik und Trigonometrie der Griechen (bjornbo-1902)

  • Author / Editor: Björnbo, Axel Anthon (1874 – 1911)

  • Edition / Locus: Abhandlungen zur Geschichte der mathematischen Wissenschaften, Heft XIV, Leipzig: Teubner, 1902 (PD)

Theodosii Sphaericorum Elementorum Libri III… Menelai Sphaericorum Lib. III (maurolico-1558)

  • Author / Editor: Maurolico, Francesco (1494 – 1575)

  • Edition / Locus: Messanae (Messina): Petrus Spira, 1558, fols. 45v–61r (PD)

Universae Geometriae Mixtaeque Mathematicae Synopsis (Milei Sphaericorum Libri III) (mersenne-1644)

  • Author / Editor: Mersenne, Marin (1588 – 1648)

  • Edition / Locus: Parisiis: Antonius Bertier, 1644 (PD)

Pappi Alexandrini Collectionis quae supersunt, Lib. VI & VII (pappus-hultsch-1877)

  • Author / Editor: Pappus of Alexandria; Friedrich Hultsch (ed.)

  • Edition / Locus: Vol. II, Berolini: Apud Weidmannos, 1877, pp. 600–604 (PD)

In Primum Euclidis Elementorum Librum Commentarii (proclus-friedlein-1873)

  • Author / Editor: Proclus Diadochus; Gottfried Friedlein (ed.)

  • Edition / Locus: Leipzig: Teubner, 1873, pp. 345–346 (PD)

Classical, Projective & Modern Constructive Treatises

Θεοδοσίου Σφαιρικῶν Βιβλία Γ’ — Theodosii Sphaericorum Libri Tres (theodosius-hunt-1707)

  • Author / Editor: Theodosius of Bithynia; Joseph Hunt (ed.)

  • Edition / Locus: Oxoniae: E Theatro Sheldoniano, 1707 (PD)

The Thirteen Books of Euclid’s Elements (euclid-heath-1908)

  • Author / Editor: Euclid of Alexandria; Thomas Little Heath (tr. & comm.)

  • Edition / Locus: Cambridge University Press, 3 vols., 1908 / 2nd ed. 1926 (PD)

A History of Greek Mathematics, Vol. II: From Aristarchus to Diophantus (heath-greek-math-1921)

  • Author / Editor: Heath, Sir Thomas Little (1861 – 1940)

  • Edition / Locus: Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1921, pp. 260–273 (PD)

De lineis rectis se invicem secantibus statica constructio (ceva-1678)

  • Author / Editor: Ceva, Giovanni (1647 – 1734)

  • Edition / Locus: Mediolani (Milan): Ex Typographia Ludovici Montiae, 1678 (PD)

Essai sur la théorie des transversales (carnot-1806)

  • Author / Editor: Carnot, Lazare (1753 – 1823)

  • Edition / Locus: Paris: Courcier, 1806 (PD)

Traité des propriétés projectives des figures (poncelet-1822)

  • Author / Editor: Poncelet, Jean-Victor (1788 – 1867)

  • Edition / Locus: Paris: Bachelier, 1822 (PD)

Aperçu historique sur l’origine et le développement des méthodes en géométrie (chasles-1837)

  • Author / Editor: Chasles, Michel (1793 – 1880)

  • Edition / Locus: Bruxelles: M. Hayez, 1837 (PD)

College Geometry (Ch. VI: Transversals; Ch. X: Harmonic Section) (altshiller-court-1925)

  • Author / Editor: Altshiller-Court, Nathan (1881 – 1968)

  • Edition / Locus: Richmond: Johnson Publishing Co., 1925 (1st ed. PD; cf. geometor/altshiller-court)

Divine Proportions: Rational Trigonometry to Universal Geometry (wildberger-2005)

  • Author / Editor: Wildberger, Norman J.

  • Edition / Locus: Sydney: Wild Egg, 2005 (cf. geometor/wildberger)