To learn technical military terms, Lincoln borrowed and studied Henry Halleck's book, Elements of Military Art and Science from the Library of Congress.

* Elements of Calculus I and Calculus II for Business, OpenCourseWare from the University of Notre Dame with activities, exams and interactive applets.

Missionaries and scholars also brought back new ideas from other civilisations-as with the Jesuit China missions who played a significant role in the transmission of knowledge, science, and culture between China and the West, translating Western works like Euclids Elements for Chinese scholars and the thoughts of Confucius for Western audiences.

His Elements is one of the most influential works in the history of mathematics, serving as the main textbook for teaching mathematics ( especially geometry ) from the time of its publication until the late 19th or early 20th century.

In the Elements, Euclid deduced the principles of what is now called Euclidean geometry from a small set of axioms.

There is no mention of Euclid in the earliest remaining copies of the Elements, and most of the copies say they are " from the edition of Theon " or the " lectures of Theon ", while the text considered to be primary, held by the Vatican, mentions no author.

The only reference that historians rely on of Euclid having written the Elements was from Proclus, who briefly in his Commentary on the Elements ascribes Euclid as its author.

Elements of the latter may have generated the Bubi, who emigrated to Bioko from Cameroon and Río Muni in several waves and succeeded former Neolithic populations.

Euclid himself seems to have considered it as being qualitatively different from the others, as evidenced by the organization of the Elements: the first 28 propositions he presents are those that can be proved without it.

The Elements began with definitions of terms, fundamental geometric principles ( called axioms or postulates ), and general quantitative principles ( called common notions ) from which all the rest of geometry could be logically deduced.

Elements of what became physics were drawn primarily from the fields of astronomy, optics, and mechanics, which were methodologically united through the study of geometry.

A proof from Euclid | Euclid's Euclid's Elements | Elements, widely considered the most influential textbook of all time.

( 3 ) The Elements of Astronomy, by Al-Fargani ( Alfraganus ); possibly translated from a Latin version.

Passages from Hegel's Elements of the Philosophy of Right are frequently used to illustrate Hegel's supposed misogyny:

Neoclassical economics is frequently dated from William Stanley Jevons's Theory of Political Economy ( 1871 ), Carl Menger's Principles of Economics ( 1871 ), and Léon Walras's Elements of Pure Economics ( 1874 – 1877 ).

* Codex Nitriensis, a volume containing a work of Severus of Antioch of the beginning of the 9th century is written on palimpsest leaves taken from 6th century manuscripts of the Iliad and the Gospel of St Luke, both of the 6th century, and the Euclid's Elements of the seventh or 8th century, British Museum

Elements from the Spanish language were also integrated into the Palauan lexicon ; the Palauan word for hammer, " martiliong ", is derived from the Spanish " martillo ".

The Elements of Theology, which consists of 211 propositions, each followed by a proof, beginning from the existence of the One ( the first principle of all things ) and ending with the descent of individual souls into the material world.

* Elements of Theology: A systematic work, with 211 propositions and proofs, describing the universe from the first principle, the One, to the descent of souls into bodies

A notable exception is his song " The Elements ", where he sets the names of the chemical elements to the tune of the " Major-General's Song " from Gilbert and Sullivan's Pirates of Penzance.

* Elements which are more electropositive than hydrogen such as lithium, sodium, calcium, potassium and caesium displace hydrogen from water, forming hydroxides.

His observations appeared in four large folio volumes from 1776 – 1811, some of them being reprinted in Samuel Vince's Elements of Astronomy.

Elements from this novel and the following one, Ozma of Oz, were incorporated into the 1985 film Return to Oz featuring Fairuza Balk as Dorothy.

Elements of the 2007 Sci-Fi Channel miniseries Tin Man also borrow from this book as much as it did the Wizard of Oz.

Elements of the story are indicated to have been drawn from Baum's The Wizard of Oz, Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, and Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

Elements of the press linked the attack on Nichols to two previous murders, those of Emma Elizabeth Smith and Martha Tabram, and suggested the killing might have been perpetrated by a gang, as in the case of Smith.

Elements of e-procurement include request for information, request for proposal, request for quotation, RFx ( the previous three together ), and eRFx ( software for managing RFx projects ).

Elements of the story tie in with TenNapel's previous comic book work Gear.

" Elements of the novel mirror themes of the real-life Constance Kent case of June 1860 which gripped the nation for years with headlines.

* De Elementen (" The Elements ", 1988 ; novel )

Elements of the story were reused by Adams for his novel Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, in particular the character of Professor Chronotis who possesses a time machine.

Elements of Ibn Fadlan's account are used in the novel Eaters of the Dead by Michael Crichton ( adapted to film in The 13th Warrior with Antonio Banderas as Ibn Fadlan ), in which the Arab ambassador is taken even further north and is involved in adventures inspired by the Old English epic Beowulf.

Elements of the novel appear to be autobiographical, particularly Jimmy's relationship with his father.

Elements of the novel are often read as autobiographical.

Elements from various Audio Visuals plays also appear in Gary Russell's contributions to the licensed Doctor Who novel ranges published by Virgin and the BBC, most notably in Deadfall.

Elements of the novel are also widely believed to be at least partially inspired by the writing of T. R. Fehrenbach, specifically his authoritative and highly original histories of Texas, Mexico, and the Comanche.

Elements of this are visible in the resulting novel, such as the prologue, which borrows the Journal of the Whills title from Lucas ' original synopsis.

Elements of the story would be incorporated into Dick's 1965 novel, The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch.

Elements of the plot recall King's Bachman novel Rage, including both the tortured protagonists having a propensity for violence and a classmate named Pig Pen.

Elements of the Land Warrior system, as worn by a member of the U. S. Army.

Elements of Allen's Lost in Space series recur in Land of the Giants, notably the relationship between the foolish, greedy traitor, an on-the-run bank robber named Alexander B. Fitzhugh ( Kurt Kasznar ), and the young boy Barry Lockridge ( portrayed by Stefan Arngrim ); paralleling the relationship in Lost in Space between Doctor Zachary Smith and the young Will Robinson.

Elements of No Man's Land are used in the film The Dark Knight Rises ; while there is no earthquake, Bane sets off various bombs that damage key areas of Gotham and destroy all but one of its bridges, forcing the citizens to remain inside Gotham as a nuclear bomb counts down, leaving them forced to band together as various gangs to survive the anarchy created by Bane's actions.

Elements of " No Man's Land " are also used in the video game " Batman Arkham City ", using the idea of a supervillain turf war after Gotham is cut off from the rest of civilization ( Although in this case only part of Gotham has been cut off, with parts of the city turned into a prison to contain the various criminals ).