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An interactive version of Byrne's The Elements of Euclid (1847)

86 pointsby tzurylast Tuesday at 5:49 AM21 commentsview on HN

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amadeuspageltoday at 10:43 AM

Beautiful, and would be so much more beautiful if it used a modern font, without these weird cs and fs. I actually had to copy-paste "reproduction" to convince myself that this is a c character, and I'm not reading something in some ancient version of english with characters that I've never seen.

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kqrtoday at 5:23 AM

The reprint of the Byrne edition of Euclid is the most beautiful book I have, and I have more shelf-metres of books than I have fingers and toes. It will always have a prominent place in my home. This website day have been what got me into it -- I don't remember.

It's also fun to try to replicate the proofs!

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ghtbircshotbetoday at 2:37 PM

Are there any interactive elements to this? It looks like a noninteractive presentation of the book as a webpage.

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initselftoday at 6:31 AM

St. John's College FTW!

tartorantoday at 1:18 PM

Whats up with the typos? Is it the fonts? I have no problem reading it but i wanted my kid to read it

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