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Oliver Byrne’s Euclid, (slightly) continued

JF Ptak Science Books LLC

Here’s a few more examples from Oliver Byrne’a unique attempt at transliterating the propositions of Euclid via color.  As I said in an earlier post  the attempt may not be a step in the right direction (and by “right” I mean “correct”) but it is, beyond doubt, beautiful–yet another example of Beautiful Wrongness.

The entire work by Oliver Byrne’s may be found here

Byrnews II.10

Byrnes II.14

Byrnes 11.8

Byrnes II.9

 

Bryne euclid i.27
 
Byrne euclid iii.6

Byrne euclid def


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