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Ancient Greek

Ancient Greek is the historical stage in the development of the Greek language spanning across the Archaic Greece , Classical Greece , and Hellenistic civilization periods of ancient Greece and the classical antiquity....
: ?ed?µ??a, Dedomena) is a work by Euclid
Euclid

Euclid , floruit 300 BC, also known as Euclid of Alexandria, was a Greek mathematics and is often referred to as the Father of Geometry. He was active in Alexandria during the reign of Ptolemy I ....
. It deals with the nature and implications of "given" information in geometrical problems; the subject matter is closely related to the first four books of the Elements
Euclid's Elements

Euclid's Elements is a mathematics and geometry treatise consisting of 13 books written by the Greek mathematics Euclid in Alexandria circa 300 BC....
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Data (Greek
Ancient Greek

Ancient Greek is the historical stage in the development of the Greek language spanning across the Archaic Greece , Classical Greece , and Hellenistic civilization periods of ancient Greece and the classical antiquity....
: ?ed?µ??a, Dedomena) is a work by Euclid
Euclid

Euclid , floruit 300 BC, also known as Euclid of Alexandria, was a Greek mathematics and is often referred to as the Father of Geometry. He was active in Alexandria during the reign of Ptolemy I ....
. It deals with the nature and implications of "given" information in geometrical problems; the subject matter is closely related to the first four books of the Elements
Euclid's Elements

Euclid's Elements is a mathematics and geometry treatise consisting of 13 books written by the Greek mathematics Euclid in Alexandria circa 300 BC....
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Editions and translations

Greek text
  • Data, ed. H. Menge, in Euclidis opera omnia, vol. 6, Leipzig: Teubner, 1896 (, )
English versions
  • Translated by Robert Simson: ,
  • The Data of Euclid, trans. from the text of Menge by George L. McDowell and Merle A. Sokolik, Baltimore: Union Square Press, 1993 (ISBN 0-9635924-1-6)
  • The Medieval Latin Translation of the Data of Euclid, translated by Shuntaro Ito
    Shuntaro Ito

    Shuntaro Ito is a Japanese scholar of the history of science and the study of comparative civilization. Ito is an honorary professor of Tokyo University and International Research Center for Japanese Studies, and a professor of Reitaku University, and the Chairman of Japan Seaology Promotion Organization....
    , Tokyo University Press, 1980 and Birkhauser, 1998. (ISBN 3-7643-3005-8)