Oliver Byrne's amazing information graphics
Posted by Simon on October 20, 2005 at 12:00 PM
Categories: infographics
Oliver Byrne ("Surveyor of Her Majesty's settlements in the Falkland Islands and author of numerous mathematical works") made a masterpiece of information graphics in 1847, giving forth the Elements of Euclid in a visual format.
You can see the whole entire thing (OK, actually just the first 6 books, but isn't that enough?) at the University of British Columbia s Oliver Byrne's edition of Euclid site. The pictures are very cool.
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Byrne's Euclid is also highlighted at the McCune Rare Book Collection at the JFK Library, 505 Santa Clara St, Vallejo, CA 94590. If you visit the website [http://www.mccunecollection.org] you can get a brief history of the book, the author, and photos of the pages. Very colorful book which was very expensive at the time it was sold in 1847. It was featured at London's Great Exhibition of 1851.
I would pay good money for a reprint of this book.
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