Abstract
THE appearance of a school edition of “Euclid's Elements,” published under the auspices of the Cambridge University Press, provokes reflections upon the strange position so long maintained in this country by Robert Simson's authorised version (so to speak) of the work of the Alexandrian geometer. For more than a hundred years the Simsonian text enjoyed an unchallenged supremacy; and not so very long ago any proposal to amend it, or to teach elementary geometry by means of some other book, was regarded as something very like profanity.
Euclid s Elements of Geometry.
Edited for the Syndics of the Press by H. M. Taylor Books I.–VI., XI., XII. Pp. xxii + 658. (Cambridge: at the University Press, 1895.)
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M., G. Euclid s Elements of Geometry. Nature 53, 241–242 (1896). https://doi.org/10.1038/053241a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/053241a0
