The First 6 Books of the Elements of Euclid with Coloured Diagrams and Symbols
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Re: The First 6 Books of the Elements of Euclid with Coloured Diagrams and Symbols
#2The author, Nicholas Rougeux, has a number of projects with a similarly excellent curation of intellectual and visual beauty.
Re: The First 6 Books of the Elements of Euclid with Coloured Diagrams and Symbols
#3Is it just my phone or are all the "s"s and "f"s accidently mathematical notation on the first book.
Re: The First 6 Books of the Elements of Euclid with Coloured Diagrams and Symbols
#4Is it just my phone or are all the "s"s and "f"s accidently mathematical notation on the first book.
There used to be two forms of letter s, long s when medial and short s when final, similar to the two forms of sigma in later Greek. The integral sign derived from this. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_s
Re: The First 6 Books of the Elements of Euclid with Coloured Diagrams and Symbols
#5Is it just my phone or are all the "s"s and "f"s accidently mathematical notation on the first book.
There used to be two forms of letter s, long s when medial and short s when final, similar to the two forms of sigma in later Greek. The integral sign derived from this. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_s
Ok, but why choose the outdated one for this? Or is it a mistake?
Re: The First 6 Books of the Elements of Euclid with Coloured Diagrams and Symbols
#6Is it just my phone or are all the "s"s and "f"s accidently mathematical notation on the first book.
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#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
There used to be two forms of letter s, long s when medial and short s when final, similar to the two forms of sigma in later Greek. The integral sign derived from this. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_s
Ok, but why choose the outdated one for this? Or is it a mistake?
It's an old book:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cf/Title_pa...
Re: The First 6 Books of the Elements of Euclid with Coloured Diagrams and Symbols
#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
There used to be two forms of letter s, long s when medial and short s when final, similar to the two forms of sigma in later Greek. The integral sign derived from this. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_s
Ok, but why choose the outdated one for this? Or is it a mistake?
It's a reproduction of Oliver Byrne's 1847 edition, which uses the long s.
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:First_six_bo...
Re: The First 6 Books of the Elements of Euclid with Coloured Diagrams and Symbols
#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
Ok, but why choose the outdated one for this? Or is it a mistake?
It's an old book: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cf/Title_pa...
I know it's an old book. I have several copies in multiple languages a couple of meters from where I'm sitting.
None of them have colored designs or interactive elements, so I really struggle to understand your point
Re: The First 6 Books of the Elements of Euclid with Coloured Diagrams and Symbols
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
Ok, but why choose the outdated one for this? Or is it a mistake?
It's a reproduction of Oliver Byrne's 1847 edition, which uses the long s. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:First_six_bo...
Seems like a weird choice to make it colored, interactive etc. - presumably to maximize accessibility/digestibility by laymen - and then adopt an outdated typography choice for coherence with a 180 year old edition