The first six books of the elements of Euclid : in which coloured diagrams and symbols are used instead of letters for the greater ease of learners
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書誌事項
The first six books of the elements of Euclid : in which coloured diagrams and symbols are used instead of letters for the greater ease of learners
Taschen, c2010
- [main vol.]
- [commentary vol.]
- タイトル別名
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Byrne's Euclid
大学図書館所蔵 全10件
注記
Full-color facsimile reproduction of Byrne's 1847 edition, accompanied by a volume of commentary
Facsimile volume originally published: London : William Pickering, 1847
In case
Commentary volume: essays by Werner Oechslin
"Project management: Petra Lamers-Schütze, Cologne"--Commentary volume, p. 95
Includes bibliographical references (commentary volume, p. 93-95)
内容説明・目次
内容説明
This title presents the elements of Euclid in living color. This is a rare and beautiful geometry primer from the 19th century. In 1847, Charles Whittingham of the Chiswick Press published an extraordinary edition on Euclidean geometry, authored by an obscure mathematician called Oliver Byrne. As Surveyor of Her Majesty's Settlements in the Falkland Islands, Byrne had already published mathematical and engineering works, but never anything like this. Written and designed by Byrne to simplify Euclid's propositions, this remarkable example of Victorian printing has been described as one of the oddest and most beautiful books of the 19th century. Each proposition is set in Caslon italic, with a four line initial: the rest of the page is a unique riot of red, yellow and blue: on some pages letters and numbers only are printed in color, sprinkled over the pages like tiny wild flowers, demanding the most meticulous register: elsewhere, solid squares, triangles and circles are printed in gaudy and theatrical colors, attaining a verve not seen again on the pages of a book until the era of Dufy, Matisse and Derain.
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