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Chicago and London: Open Court, 1920. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Euclid Freed from Every Fleck, or a geometric endeavor in which are established the foundation principles of universal geometry" (published in Milan in 1733) was Saccheri's re-do of Euclid that was intended to demonstrate that the Fifth or Parallel Postulate of Euclid is valid, but which modern scholars recognize as the first (albeit unwitting) exposition of a non-Euclidean geometry. This volume features the original Latin on the versos and the translation on the rectos. Only flaw is that the label on the spine has chipped and is unreadable as a result