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~CKCXsov -orLXlcoV: 3MlAa it', Rome, 1545, 8vo., plete translation' of Archimedes.'It was his inprinted by Antonius Bladus Asulanus, containing tention to publish the texts of Euclid, Apollonius,
- enunciations only, without demonstrations or dia- and Archimedes; and beginning to examine the
-grams, edited by'Angelus Cujanus, and dedicated' manuscripts of Euclid in the Royal Library at
to Antonius Altovitus. We happen to possess a Paris, 23 in number, he found one, marked-No. 190,
little volume agreeing in every particular with this which had the appearance of being written in the
description, except only that it is in Italian, being ninth. century, and which seemed more complete
"I quindici libri degli elementi di Euclide, di Greco and trustworthy than any single known manu-tradotti in lingua Thoscana." Here is another in- script. This document was part of the plunder
stance in which the editor believed he had given sent from Rome to Paris by Napoleon, and had
the whole of Euclid in giving the enunciations. belonged to the Vatican Library. When restituFrom' this edition another Greek text,- Florence, tion was enforced by the allied armies in 1815, a
1545, was invented by another mistake.. All the special permission was given to Peyrard to retain
Greek and Latin editions which Fabricius, Mur- this manuscript till he had finished the edition on
hard, &c.,' attribute to Dasypodius (Conrad Rauch- which he was then engaged, and of which one vofuss), only give the enunciations in Greek. The lume had already appeared. Peyrard was a worsame may be said of Scheubel's edition of the first shipper of this manuscript, No. 190, and had a consix books'-(Basle, folio, 1550), which nevertheless tempt for all previous editions of Euclid. He gives
professes in the title-page to give Euclid, Gr. Lat. at the end of each volume a comparison of the
There is an anonymous complete Greek and Latin Paris edition with the Oxford, specifying what has
text, London, printed by William Jones, 1620, been derived from the Vatican manuscript, and
which has thirteen books in the title-page, but making a selection from the various readings of the
contains only six in all copies that we have seen: other 22 manuscripts which were before him. This
it is attributed to the celebrated mathematician edition is therefore very valuable; but it is very
Briggs. incorrectly printed: and the editor's strictures
The Oxford' edition, folio, 1703, published by upon his predecessors seem to us to require the
David Gregory, with the title EvKcAefov i- orw6~4- support of'better scholarship than he could bring,peva, took its rise in the collection of manuscripts to bear upon the subject. (See the Dublin Review,
bequeathed by Sir Henry Savile to the University, No. 22, Nov. 1841, p. 341, &c.)
and was a part of Dr. Edward Bernard's plan The Berlin edition, Greek only, one volume in
(see his life in the Pennuy Cyclopaedia) for a large two parts, octavo, Berlin, 1826, is the work of E.
republication of the Greek:geometers. His inten- F. August, and contains the thirteen books of the
tion was, that the first four volumes should contain Elements, with various readings from Peyrard, and
Euclid, Apollonius, Archimedes, Pappus, and Heron; from three additional manuscripts at Munich (makand, by an undesigned coincidence, the University ing altogether about 35 manuscripts consulted by
has actually published the first three volumes in the the four editors). To the scholar who wants one
order intended': we hope Pappus and Heron will edition of the Elements, we should decidedly-rebe edited in time. In this Oxford text a large addi- commend this, as bringing together all that has
tional supply of manuscripts was consulted, but been done for the text of Euclid's greatest work.
various readings are not given. It contains all the We mention here, out of its place, The Elements
reputed works of Euclid, the Latin work of Mo- of Euclid with dissertations, by James Williamson,
hammed of Bagdad, above mentioned astattributed B.D. 2 vols. 4to., Oxford, 1781, and London, 1788.
by some to Euclid, and a Latin fragment De Levi This is an English translation of thirteen books,
et Ponderoso, which is wholly unworthy of notice, made in the closest manner from the Oxford edibut which some had given to Eucrid.' The Latin tion, being Euclid word for word, with the addiof this edition is mostly from Commandine, with tional words required by the English idiom' given
the help of Henry Savile's papers, which seem to in Italics. This edition is valuable, and not very
have:nearly amounted to a complete version.' As scarce: the dissertations may be read withr profit
an edition of the whole of Euclid's works, this by a modem algebraist, if it be true that equal and
stands alone, there being no other in Greek. opposite errors destroy one another.
Peyrard, who examined it with every desire to Camerer and Hauber published the first six
find errors of the press, produced only at the rate books in Greek and Latin, with good notes, Ber-.
of ten for each book of the Elements. lin, 8vo. 1824.
The Paris edition was produced under singular We believe we have mentioned all the Greek
circumstances. It is Greek, Latip, and French, in texts' of the Elements;'the liberal supply with
3 vols. 4to. Paris, 1814-16-18, and it contains which the bibliographers have furnished the world,
fifteen books of the Elements and the Data;'for, and which Fabricius and others have perpetuated,
though professing to give a complete edition of is, as we have no'doubt, a series of mistakes arising
Euclid, Peyrard would not admit anything else to for the most part out of the belief about Euclid the
be genuine. F. Peyrard had published a transla- enunciator and Theon the demonstrator, which we
tion of some books of Euclid in 1804, and a com- have described. Of Latin editions, which must have
a slight notice, we have the six books by Orontius'
classical bibliographers are trustworthy as to Finoeus, Paris, 1536, folio (Fabr., Murhard);:
writers with whom -a scholar is more conversant the same by Joachim Camerarius, Leipsic, 1549,
than with Euclid. It is much that a Fabricius 8vo (Fabr., Murhard); the fifteen books by Steph.
should enter upon Euclid -or Archimedes at all, Gracilis, Paris, 1557, 4to. (Fabr., who calls it Gr.
and he may well be excused for simply copying Lat.,'Murhard); the fifteen books of Franc. de Foix
from bibliographical lists. But the mathemati- de Candail(Flussas Candalla),who adds a sixteenth,
cal bibliographers, Heilbronner, Murhard, &c., are Paris, 1566, folio, and promises a seventeenth and
inexcusable for copying from, and perpetuating, the eighteenth, which he gave in a subsequent edition,
almost unavoidable mistakes of Fabricius. -; -- Paris, 1578, folio (Fabr.,'Murhard); Frederic'