The Elements of Euclid

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• woolion 11 hours ago
  Previous discussions

  2023 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37550846

  2018 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18697567

  And another approach, Fancy Euclid's “Elements” in TeX

  2019 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20019616
• LordGronk 11 hours ago
  I would love to someday see a version of this or a hardcopy of Byrne’s version but with the original greek text and a modern apparatus criticus.
• hawksprite 18 hours ago
  This is very beautiful. Your other projects are inspiring as well. Thank you so much for sharing.
• intalentive 18 hours ago
  Lovely site, thanks for sharing. Much nicer to look at than my beat up old Dover edition.
• lern_too_spel 17 hours ago
  While Byrne's is beautiful, I prefer having the cross-references and additional analysis of http://aleph0.clarku.edu/~djoyce/java/elements/bookI/propI1.....
• thrance 19 hours ago
  Nice project, but usage of the long s "ſ" makes this somewhat unpleasant to go through. Also it's a medieval character, Euclid didn't know of it, so is it purely to decorate the text? To make it feel more ancient?
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  • jhbadger 2 hours ago
    This is based on Byrne's famous translation/illustration of Euclid published in the 1840s, which did use the long s (although it was beginning to fall out of favor even then) See this example page from the book https://www.mccunecollection.org/gems
  • intalentive 18 hours ago
    The long s is preſtigious. But if you don't like it, it looks like you can switch to "Modern English" at the upper right.
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    • thrance 8 hours ago
      Good catch! But now there's a weird ligarure between "s" and "t".