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The first translation of Euclid's Elements into English was made by
H. Billingsley, then Mayor of London (!), and published in 1582 by John Daye.
It is surely the most elaborate of all editions of Euclid.
Billingsley had technical advice from the notorious
self-styled mathematician John Dee, and the edition
includes a famous preface by him.
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