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EUCLID. The First Six Books of Euclid in which Coloured Diagrams and Symbols are used for the Greater Ease of Learners. By Oliver Byrne.
EUCLID. The First Six Books of Euclid in which Coloured Diagrams and Symbols are used for the Greater Ease of Learners. By Oliver Byrne. Color-printed wood-engraved diagrams by Charles Whittingham throughout. 4to, late 19th-/early 20th-century 1/2 navy morocco gilt; mostly marginal foxing throughout. London: William Pickering, 1847
- Notes: first byrne edition. one of 1000 copies. "Byrne, a mathematician and Surveyor of Crown Lands in the Falkland Islands, considered that it might be easier to learn geometry if colors were substituted for the letters usually used to designate the angles and lines of geometric figures... Whether this is true may be doubted, but it is certain that the book Byrne produced in support of his theory is visually striking and a triumph of color printing"--Friedman, Color Printing in England 43.
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