Item 14c - 'Euclid's Parallel Postulate'

Identity area

Reference code

O./6.5/14c

Title

'Euclid's Parallel Postulate'

Date(s)

  • [early 20th cent.?] (Creation)

Level of description

Item

Extent and medium

Typescript with MS annotation and corrections: 3 unnumbered sheets; ff. 1-28 (including both 7a and 7, unnumbered sheet between ff. 15-16); unnumbered sheet at end. With envelope.

Context area

Content and structure area

Scope and content

Third in the series of 'Old Papers' in typed list found with Rouse Ball's papers. Includes a couple of printed scholarship examination papers (Botany, 1897 and 1905), used for scrap paper.

Allied materials area

Publication note

See the chapter on 'The Parallel Postulate' in Rouse Ball's Mathematical Recreations And Essays, which first appeared in the 1913 5th edition.