Author:Henry Billingsley

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Henry Billingsley
(c. 1550 – 1606)

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English merchant, Lord Mayor of London; first translator of Euclid into English

Works

The Elements of Geometrie of the most auncient Philosopher Euclide of Megara (1570) (external scan)

Works about Billingsley

"Billingsley, Henry," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.
"Sir Henry Billingsley," in Men of Kent and Kentishmen, by John Hutchinson, Canterbury: Cross & Jackman (1892)

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