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After this book was printed in 1546, we have a long time in which we don’t know where it was. Inside the front cover, we do have some information. We have a newspaper notice, which someone wrote with a red pencil that it was “Avril 1927.” I don’t speak French, but I know enough that … Read more

Blog Post #3 by Becka Every page in Euclid’s Geometry has images on it. There are two main categories of pictures in this book – pictures that are useful for explaining geometry and pictures that are not. With the help of another person in the room, I photographed shining a light through the page to … Read more

Mise en page and mise en texte for Euclid’s Geometry (1546) by Becka For some reason, I am unable to add any photos to this blog post due to “not enough space to upload”, so I apologize for the descriptions of images that my readers cannot see and will have to rely on my previous … Read more

Pet Book Project #1 by Becka Euclid, Geometry (1546) is how this book was listed for our class. My Latin is mostly non-existent, so I’m not quite sure how much of Euclidis Megarensis mathematici clarissimi Elementorum geo metricorum libri xv is the title. I also haven’t figured out how to type the symbol that is … Read more