Byrne, Six Books of Euclid: Oliver Byrne

Рейтинг5(1 оценка)
1 рецензия

Аннотация

The Elements of Euclid In Living Color
A rare and beautiful geometry primer from the 19th century
Red, yellow, blue - and of course black - are the colours that Oliver Byrne employs for the figures and diagrams in his most unusual 1847 edition of Euclid, published by William Pickering and printed by Chiswick Press, and which prompt the surprised reader to think of Mondrian. The author makes it clear in his subtitle that this is a didactic measure intended to distinguish his edition from all others: "The Elements of Euclid in which coloured diagrams and symbols are used instead of letters for the greater ease of learners." Byrne is not content to trust solely in the supposed intuitive "logical" structure of Euclid's axioms and theorems - who doesn't know the first famous sentences of Euclid's Elements: "I. A point is that which has no parts. II. A line is length without breadth"? -, but translates them into colourful diagrams and symbols. He thereby thinks in terms of the school classroom: he compares his colours to the dyed chalks in which figures are drawn on the blackboard.
Oliver Byrne (c. 1810-c. 1880) was an Irish author and civil engineer. Little is known about his life, though he wrote a considerable number of books. As Surveyor of Her Majesty's Settlements in the Falkland Islands, Byrne had already published mathematical and engineering works, but never anything like his edition on Euclid. This remarkable example of Victorian printing has been described as one of the oddest and most beautiful books of the 19th century.
Each proposition is set in Caslon italic, with a four-line initial, while the rest of the page is a unique riot of red, yellow and blue. On some pages, letters and numbers only are printed in colour, sprinkled over the pages like tiny wild flowers and demanding the most meticulous alignment of the different colour plates for printing. Elsewhere, solid squares, triangles and circles are printed in bright colours, expressing a verve not seen again on the pages of a book until the era of Dufy, Matisse and Derain.
About the author:
Werner Oechslin (born 1944) studied art history, archaeology, philosophy and mathematics. After doctoral studies in Zurich in 1970 he taught at MIT and Harvard University. Since 1985 he has been a professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, where he led the Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture from 1986 to 2006. His research focuses on architectural theory and the cultural history of architecture. His most recent publication is Palladianismus: Andrea Palladio - Werk und Wirkung (2008). He is the founder of Bibliothek Werner Oechslin in Einsiedeln.
Multilingual Edition: English, French, German.
Развернуть

Характеристики

Автор
Издательство
Taschen, 2010
ID товара
248871 
ISBN
978-3-8365-1775-1 
Язык
Немецкий, Французский, Английский 
Страниц
396 (Мелованная)
Вес
1618 г
Размеры
257x210x53 мм
Тип обложки
7А - твердая, обтянутая тканью (или бумвинил) 
Оформление
Частичная лакировка, футляр закрытый 
Иллюстрации
Цветные 
Все характеристики
Нет в продаже
Рецензии на книгу
Читали книгу? Как она вам?
+50 ₽ за рецензию
Вы можете стать одним из первых, кто напишет рецензию на эту книгу, и получить бонус — до 50 рублей на баланс в Лабиринте!
Покупатели 0
Эксперты 1

Книги из жанра

1 3133 282 -60% Еще 2 дня
1 6474 117 -60% Еще 2 дня
1 6524 129 -60% Еще 2 дня
1 7664 414 -60% Еще 2 дня
1 1562 889 -60% Еще 2 дня
1 6914 227 -60% Еще 2 дня
1 3683 419 -60% Еще 2 дня
4 42411 061 -60% Еще 2 дня
1 6424 104 -60% Еще 2 дня
1 6424 104 -60% Еще 2 дня
1 2633 157 -60% Еще 2 дня
1 8404 601 -60% Еще 2 дня
1 4903 724 -60% Еще 2 дня
1 4673 668 -60% Еще 2 дня
2 9127 280 -60% Еще 2 дня
1 3543 386 -60% Еще 2 дня
1 1282 820 -60% Еще 2 дня
1 1282 820 -60% Еще 2 дня

Что читать вместе с книгой "Byrne, Six Books of Euclid"

Все темы