Euclid's Elements (Jihe Yuanben), Vol 6
幾何原本 (Jihe Yuanben: Euclids Elements in Chinese) Vol 6
Chinese
1607
195 pages
First Translation
No prior complete English translation of this text has been found.
The 'Jihe Yuanben' (1607) is the first Chinese translation of Euclid's Elements, produced by Matteo Ricci and Xu Guangqi from Christopher Clavius's Latin edition. While Euclid's Elements is widely available in English from Greek and Latin sources, this specific Chinese version is a distinct historical and linguistic document. Search results from scholarly catalogs and Google Books, including the definitive study 'Euclid in China' by Peter M. Engelfriet (Brill), indicate that while the work is extensively studied and its prefaces may be anthologized, no complete English translation of the Chinese text itself has been published.
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Euclid's Elements Vol. 6 captures the historic meeting of Western logic and Chinese scholarship. Readers will learn how to measure the invisible world through the lens of proportion, similarity, and geometric construction.
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