Euclid’s Elements, which presented the state of the art in geometry around 300 B.C., has been extraordinarily influential. This massive, 13-volume compendium set the standard for mathematical ...

Euclid wrote his famous textbook of geometry, the “Elements,” around 300 B.C. It is a masterpiece of thought and exposition. The “Elements” deduces abundant, ...

He goes into the process and challenges of being faithful to both Byrne’s design and Euclid’s geometric principles in an extensive blog post.The typeface in the book — Caslon — is still ...

The book was exhibited in London at the Great Exhibition of 1851 and both Euclid and Oliver ... The book was sold by William Pickering for the extravagant price of 25 shillings, placing it out of ...

THE preface to the first edition of Sir Thomas Heath's translation of Euclid's “Elements” begins with the following quotation from De Morgan: “There never has been, and until we see it we ...

Euclid's Elements of Geometry, Books I. and II. Edited for the use of Schools, by Charles Smith Sophie Bryant Pp. viii + 160. (London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1897.) ...

Geometry gives us a world unclad. “Euclid alone has looked on Beauty bare,” wrote Edna St. Vincent Millay. That feeling of mystical revelation — of a shimmering, underlying order that we can ...