Description: Euclid's Elements is acknowledged as the most influential writing on mathematics in the West at least till the end of the Middle Ages. Over the last thirty-six years several of the most important medieval Latin texts of the Elements have been edited. The most frequently used compilation remained, i.e.
Review Quotes: "... In one way, Busard's book is the culmination of his contributions to our knowledge of the Latin Euclids; perhaps more importantly it is a prelude to tou deeper understanding of how medieval minds worked in an essential part of the quadrivium.""... To sum up, Busard's campanus of Novara and Euclid's Elemts fulfillls a long-standing desideratum for a schlolary edition- though, alay, not a fully critical one- of the most important medieval and early Renaissance Euclidean text. For this, historians of mathematis are in Busard's debt."