This classic mathematical text contains the fifth and sixth books of Euclid's Elements, along with a note on irrational numbers. The fifth book covers the theory of ratios and proportions, while the sixth book focuses on the properties of similar figures. The note on irrational numbers includes a discussion of the square root of two and the discovery that it is an irrational number.

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