The Book of Wonders The Many Lives of Euclid's Elements
William Collins, 2020. Paperback. A clean crisp well preserved 2020 William Collins imprint of HarperCollins Publishing softcover in a fine tight binding. Little to no shelf wear. Text is bright and free of marks or underlining. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. New. Item #1572
ISBN: 9780008299910
There is little about today's world that doesn't owe something to Euclid and his Elements of Geometry. A book of wonders: of strange shapes and unexpected truths. A book of delights: of perfectly connected arguments and striking beauties, A book that reveled the globe, shopping art, philosophy, and architecture, and making modern science possible. A book that would visit every continent and touch countless lives.
Here, author Benjamin Wardhaugh takes readers on a journey through history and around the globe, from ancient Athens to the workshops of Restoration London, from the Jesuit mission in China to the artisans of medieval Baghdad. Three dozen interlocking stories introduce some of the peoples whose lives Euclid's Elements touched: artists, philosophers, teachers, playwrights, painters, poets and more. It chases the Elements of Geometry through the byways of medieval scriptoria, the rubbish heaps of ancient Egypt and the streets of revolutionary Paris.
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