1001 puzzels en raadsels

Facsimile of the famous first edition of 1847.Euclid in Living Color: Oliver Byrne’s illustrated edition of Elements! Nearly a century before Mondrian made geometrical red yellow and blue lines famous 19th-century mathematician Oliver Byrne employed the color scheme for his 1847 edition of Euclid’s mathematical and geometric treatise Elements. Byrne’s idea was to use color to make learning easier and “diffuse permanent knowledge.” The result has been described as one of the oddest and ...