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Author	Euclid.
Title	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 / by Oliver Byrne.
Publication Info.	Köln : Taschen, c2010.

Location	Call No.	Status
Stack 3	513 E	IN LIBRARY

Description	xxix, 268 p. : col. ill. ; 24 cm + 1 commentary volume (95 p. : col. ill. ; 24 cm)
Note	Full-color facsimile reproduction of Byrne's 1847 edition, accompanied by a volume of commentary.
	Issued in a case.
	Facsimile volume originally published: London : William Pickering, 1847.
	The accompanying commentary volume contains two essays by Werner Oechslin; each essay is printed in the original German and in English and French translations. The English titles of the essays are: Euclid's geometry, (not) a Via Regia?; and, "To facilitate their acquirement" : Oliver Byrne's The first six books of the Elements of Euclid : didactic, colourful, and eccentric.
	"Project management: Petra Lamers-Schütze, Cologne"--Imprint, p. 95.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (commentary volume, p. 93-95).
Subject	Euclid. Elements.
	Geometry -- History.
	Byrne, Oliver.
	De Morgan, Augustus, 1806-1871.
Added Author	Byrne, Oliver.
	Oechslin, Werner.
	Lamers-Schütze, Petra.
Added Title	Book 1-6. English
	Elements of Euclid, in which coloured diagrams and symbols are used instead of letters for the greater ease of learners
	Euclid's geometry, (not) a Via Regia?
	Oliver Byrne's The first six books of the Elements of Euclid : didactic, colourful, and eccentric.
ISBN	9783836517751
	3836517752

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