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A Re-Release of Euclid's "Elements" as Modern-Day Design Manual

13 volumes collected into one book, cleanly designed

By Rain Noe - September 5, 2017

The Elements is to math as the Bible is to Christianity. Written circa 300 B.C. by Greek mathematician Euclid, the 13-volume series contained everything the ancient Greeks knew about geometry. It influenced countless generations of scientists, mathematicians and academics and remains relevant today.

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By Euclid (author), Erhard Ratdolt (printer) - Folger Shakespeare Library Digital Image Collection, CC BY-SA 4.0

In the 1800s, English engineer Oliver Byrne took the first six volumes and modernized them, creating colorful visual concepts to illustrate Euclid's principles.

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Now an organization called Kronecker Wallis is building on Byrne's work, re-interpreting the last seven books in the series and re-releasing all of them in a crisp, minimalist style within a single tome.

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They're selling it for €150 (USD $176) on Kickstarter, and it's been a rousing success; at press time they had $190,536 in pledges on a $136,924 goal.

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There are just seven days left in the campaign. If you'd like to see some evidence of Kronecker Wallis' track record, they also gave the design update/modernization treatment to Newton's Principia Mathematica:

Isaac Newton’s Principia Mathematica reissue from Kronecker Wallis on Vimeo.

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I’m a lapsed industrial designer. I was born in NYC and figured I’d die there, but a few years ago I abandoned New York to live on a farm in the countryside with my wife. We have six dogs.