Download or read book Robert of Chester s redaction of Euclid s Elements the so called Adelard II version written by Hubertus Lambertus Ludovicus Busard and published by Birkhauser. This book was released on 1992 with total page 959 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Latin "Version II", till now attributed to Adelard of Bath, is edited here for the first time from all 61 manuscripts. It was the most influential Euclid text in the Latin West in the 12th and 13th centuries, as shown by the large number of manuscripts and the numerous quotations in other scientific and philosophical texts. The introduction deals with the questions of when and by whom version II was written. To facilitate further research on the style of version II and its author, an index of Latin words gives a reference to every instance of every word. The variant readings are given in volume 2, which also contains an appendix in which larger additions or alternative readings and alternative proofs found in many manuscripts are given. Scholarship of the highest order. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.