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byrne-euclid

MetaPost + TeX rendition of Oliver Byrne's "The first six books of the Elements of Euclid"

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MetaPost + TeX rendition of Oliver Byrne's "The first six books of the Elements of Euclid"

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01232017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 2 submissions, 0 comments20172018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 2 submissions, 1 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments20212022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments. Incomplete calendar period.2026*

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20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC321
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC110
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
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20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC110
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svat·May 27, 2019
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: https://github.com/jemmybutton/byrne-euclid A scan of Byrne's 1847 original here: https://archive.org/details/firstsixbooksofe00byrn/page/n6 Another person's (Nicholas Rougeux's) reproduction here: https://www.c82.net/euclid/about/ A publisher's attempt to “extend” Byrne's work from 6 to all 13 books here (Kickstarter + preorder; I don't believe it's done yet): https://www.kroneckerwallis.com/product/euclids-elements-com... There's also a facsimile reproducti
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on of Byrne's original by the publisher Taschen, with a review here that goes into some detail on Euclid editions and on Byrne: https://www.maa.org/publications/maa-reviews/the-first-six-b...
In Fancy Euclid's “Elements” in TeX

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