Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Prologue
I: AUTHOR
Alexandria: The geometer and the king
Elephantine: Pot shards
Hypsicles: The fourteenth book
Theon of Alexandria: Editing the Elements
Stephanos the scribe: Euclid in Byzantium
Al-Hajjaj: Euclid in Baghdad
Adelard: The Latin Euclid
Erhard Ratdolt: Printing the Elements
Marget Seymer her hand: Owning the Elements
Edward Bernard: Minerva in Oxford
Interlude
II: SAGE
Plato: The philosopher and the slave
Proclus Diadochus: Minerva in Athens

Hroswitha of Gandersheim: Wisdom and her daughters
Rabbi Levi ben Gershom: Euclid in Hebrew
Christoph Clavius: The Jesuit Elements
Xu Guangqi: Euclid in China
Blame not our author: Geometry on stage
Baruch Spinoza: The geometrical manner
Anne Lister: Improving the mind
Interlude
III: HERO
Petechonsis: Taxing and overtaxing
Dividing the monochord
Hyginus: Surveying the land
Muhammad Abu al-Wafa al-Buzjani: Dividing the square
Lady Geometria: Depicting the liberal arts
Piero della Francesca: Seeing in perspective
Euclid Speidell: Teaching and learning

Isaac Newton: Mathematical principles
Interlude
IV: SHADOW AND MASK
Mary Fairfax: Euclid and the straitjacket
François Peyrard: Manuscript 190
Nicolai Ivanovich Lobachevskii: Parallels
Maggie and Tom: The torture of the mind
Simson in Urdu: The Euclidean empire
His modern rivals
Thomas Little Heath: The true con amore spirit
Max Ernst: Euclid's mask
Euclidean designs
Lambda: Curved space, dark energy
Epilogue
Acknowledgements
Image Credits
Notes on Sources
Select Bibliography
Index