The First Six Books of the Elements of Euclid
by Euclid, Oliver Byrne, Werner Oechslin · first published 1847
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Works from 1916 and before are public domain? Not a bad start. It is a really great to read the beautiful color version of the *First Six Books of the Elements of Euclid" online for free. https://archive.org/details/firstsixbooksofe00byrn Meanwhile it is selling on Amazon for up to $100 http://www.amazon.com/Oliver-Byrne-Six-Books-Euclid/dp/38365...
on “What Could Have Entered the Public Domain on January 1, 2014” ↗See also O. Byrne, "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", https://www.c82.net/euclid/ (reproduction in CSS by Nicholas Rougeux)
on “Proofs Without Words” ↗To add some context, this is a version, prepared in ConTeXt and MetaPost by Sergey Slyusarev (@jemmybutton), of Oliver Byrne's 1847 work “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”. This linked post on habr.com is definitely worth reading; also see the sources on GitHub page here:…
on “Fancy Euclid's “Elements” in TeX” ↗> When I get time I will implement CI/CD to genereate the pdfs You may take a look on `.travis.yml`[0] used for MetaPost + ConTeXt rendition of Oliver Byrne's "The first six books of the Elements of Euclid".[1] [0] https://github.com/jemmybutton/byrne-euclid/blob/master/.tra... [1] https://github.com/jemmybutton/byrne-euclid/releases/tag/Cur...
on “Mathematics Cheat Sheet [pdf]” ↗Author also experiments with combining `fiziko.mp` with `byrne.mp`.[0] P.S.: byrne.mp — MetaPost + ConTeXt rendition of Oliver Byrne's "The first six books of the Elements of Euclid".[1] [0] https://twitter.com/cphlmy/status/1149450536309182465 [1] https://github.com/jemmybutton/byrne-euclid
on “Fiziko – various things in MetaPost for a physics textbook” ↗