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?
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
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
While Byrne's is beautiful, I prefer having the cross-references and additional analysis of http://aleph0.clarku.edu/~djoyce/java/elements/bookI/propI1.....
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?
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
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.
Good catch! But now there's a weird ligarure between "s" and "t".
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.
This is very beautiful. Your other projects are inspiring as well. Thank you so much for sharing.
Lovely site, thanks for sharing. Much nicer to look at than my beat up old Dover edition.