Author: EUCLID. KEILL (John). CUNN (Samuel):
Title: Euclid's Elements of Geometry, From the Latin Translation of Commandine. To which is added, A Treatise of the Nature and Arithmetic of Logarithms; Likewise another of the Elemnets of Plane and Spherical Trigonometry, With A Preface, showing the Useful and Excellency of this Work By Doctor John Kiell... The Whole Revised....,, Also, Many Faults committed by Dr. Harris, Mr. Caswel, Mr. Heynes, and other Trigonometrical Writers are shewn .... An Ample Account of which may be seen in the Preface by Samuel Gunn. The Tenth Edition....
Description: London: Printed for A. Millar, T. and R. Rivington...[inter alia], 1707 8vo, 208 x 120 mms., pp. [xvi],, 399 [400 adverts], 18 folding engraved plates, contemporary calf, rebacked, no label; title-page soiled, some text browned. The Scottish mathematician and physicist John Keill (1671–1721) studied mathematics at the University of Edinburgh under David Gregory (1661–1708), whom he followed to Balliol College, Oxford. Oxford DNB records that "After developing ways of expounding Newtonian principles by experimental demonstrations in his room at Balliol, Keill was appointed as a lecturer in experimental philosophy at Hart Hall. He therefore offered the first course on Newtonian natural philosophy, and the first reputedly based on 'experimental demonstrations', at either of the English universities." The first edition of this book seems to have been published in 1699.

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