Euclides [Hebrew translation of the first Six Books of The Elements]

(EUCLID)

Soesmanns & Munnikhuizen

The Hague

1780

Three folding engraved plates with nearly 150 geometrical figures. Translated by Baruch Szyk of Schklow. Title within typographical border

Vinograd, The Hague 11

The Editor’s Preface states that the work was translated and published at the urging of Elijah, Gaon of Vilna USE FOR THE FUTURE: The Editor’s Preface states that the work was translated and published at the behest of Elijah, Gaon of Vilna. Schick relates that he paid a visit to the “famous Chasid R. Elijah in the month of Teveth 5538 [1778].” “I heard from the mouth of the holy man that in direct proportion to a man’s deficiency in the other wisdoms, he will be deficient one hundred times so in the wisdom of Torah; for Torah and wisdom are bound together.” See David E. Fishman, Russia’s First Modern Jews: The Jews of Shklov (1995), p. 22, 37-40