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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, surveyor of Her Majesty's settlements in the Falkland Islands and author of numerous mathematical works.
Gale Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Science, Technology and Medicine, 1780-1925 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Byrne, Oliver.
- Series:
- Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Science, Technology, and Medicine, Part I.
- Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Science, Technology, and Medicine, Part I
- Language:
- English
- Greek, Ancient (to 1453)
- Subjects (All):
- Euclid. Elements.
- Euclid.
- Euclid's Elements.
- Geometry.
- Geometry--Study and teaching.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xxix, 268 p.) : col. ill.
- Other Title:
- First six books of the Elements of Euclid
- Place of Publication:
- London : William Pickering, 1847 (Chiswick : C. Whittingham)
- Notes:
- Printer from colophon.
- Half title: Byrne's Euclid : the first six books of Euclid with coloured diagrams and symbols.
- Dedicated to the Earl Fitzwilliam.
- Criblé initials designed by Mary Byfield.
- Collation: 4to?: [A]² b² c-d⁴ e² f1, B-2L⁴ 2M² [$1 signed]; 149 leaves, pp. [i-vii] viii-xxix [xxx (blank)], [1] 2-70 [71] 72-144 [145] 146-210 [211] 212-268.
- "Corrigenda": p. xxix.
- Reproduction of the original from the Huntington Library.
- Contains:
- Euclid. Elements. Book 1-6. English.
- OCLC:
- 755645405
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