Recreating Oliver Byrne’s Euclid Online

Euclid’s Elements is a collection of 13 books attributed to Greek mathematician Euclid circa 300 BC and laid the foundation for geometry, number theory, and many core concepts of math and logic still used today. In 1847, Irish mathematics professor Oliver Byrne published his celebrated edition of Euclid's original work using colourful illustrations.  Designer Nicholas Rougeux has recreated all six books of Oliver Byrne’s Euclid on the web, following the original as closely as possible while adding links between propositions and even making the diagrams interactive.

Geometric proof of the pythagorean theorem
from the first printed edition in 1482 (left bottom),
Byrne’s colorful rendition in 1847 (middle), and the online edition (right).

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