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A Re-Release of Euclid’s “Elements” as Modern-Day Design Manual

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.

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.

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.

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.

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:

If you’d like to buy in, click here.