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- 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)
- 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...
- > 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...
- 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]
- 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 reproduction 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...
