kavc fallen upon them* We had alfo tt Leedes a much 
greater Storm the night pregeding the Faft, and a ftronger 
Wind that day, than when the fatal Storm was in the 
Souths but a good Providence timed this well, to quicken 
cur too cold Devotions. 
Yin. Jn Accou7it of a Book^ viz* 
Mmlidis fi^t fuperfunt Qmiia Gr. Lat. ex reccnfi'- 
out DaVidis Gregorij^ M. D, Afironomi.t Trofc^o-' 
ris Sayiliani^ (!(. S. S. Oxon. 1705. Folio. 
THEUniverfity of Ojr/&r^ intending to publifli all 
the Greek, Mathematicians*) have begun with Eucli^/^ 
as the ftandard Writer of the Elements of Geometry and 
Arithmetick. In this Edition is publifbed whatever hg^ 
been believed to be Eyelid's by any confiderable Mathe- 
matician, But many things having been attributed to 
iS^r//V/that are not his (as in after ages it happened to men 
of fo eftabli(hed fame as he has been for above 2 coo 
years) Dr (^regory in the Preface, after a (hort fiiramary 
q{ Euclid'^ Life (as far as can be gathered ft-om the Wri- 
tings oi the Antients, who were afhamed to fet down par- 
ticulars of him, who was fo much and univerially known) 
gives not only a defcription of every particular Book, but 
alfo his opinion whether it be truly Euclidh ov nox^ wit4i 
his Reafons. 
f irft of all are the Elemnts^ which make t wo thirds of 
the whole Volume. The firft thirteen Books^'^re certain^ 
lyEucMnJ The fourteenth and fifteenth are by moft 
thought to be M Akxandm. Thei^e are no 
