书名：Oliver Byrne. The First Six Books of the Elements of Euclid / 奥利弗·伯恩. 欧几里得《几何原本》前六卷 / Taschen 出版
定价：480.0
ISBN：9783836577380
作者：Oechslin, Prof. Dr. Werner
版次：1
出版时间：2022-05

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书名：Oliver Byrne. The First Six Books of the Elements of Euclid / 奥利弗·伯恩. 欧几里得《几何原本》前六卷  / Taschen 出版

作者：Oechslin, Prof. Dr. Werner

出版：TASCHEN，2022

装帧：精装，396页

语种：德文，法文，英文

尺寸：20.5 x 25.6 cm

一种新的几何学学习体系——奥利弗·伯恩插图版《欧几里得几何原本》

在蒙德里安让几何风格的红、黄、蓝线条闻名于世的近一个世纪前，19世纪数学家奥利弗·伯恩在其1847年版的欧几里得数学与几何论著《几何原本》中就采用了这种配色方案。伯恩的想法是用色彩让学习变得更轻松，并“传播持久的知识”。其成果被描述为19世纪最奇特也最美丽的书籍之一。

如今，伯恩这部开创性著作的复刻本推出了精美的新版。这是一部艺术与科学的杰作，其大胆的红、黄、蓝图形与图表，同其理论的数学精确性一样引人注目。页面中简洁的形式与色彩，预示了风格派和包豪斯设计的活力。在让复杂信息既易于理解又具有美学吸引力方面，这部作品堪称信息图表的先驱，而如今信息图表在很大程度上决定了我们对数据的消费方式。

Nearly a century before Mondrian made geometrical red, yellow, and blue lines famous, 19th-century mathematician Oliver Byrne employed the color scheme for his 1847 edition of Euclid’s mathematical and geometric treatise Elements. Byrne’s idea was to use color to make learning easier and “diffuse permanent knowledge.” The result has been described as one of the oddest and most beautiful books of the 19th century.

The facsimile of Byrne’s seminal publication is now available in a beautiful new edition. A masterwork of art and science, it is as remarkable in the boldness of its red, yellow, and blue figures and diagrams as it is in the mathematical precision of its theories. In the simplicity of forms and colors, the pages anticipate the vigor of De Stijl and Bauhaus design. In making complex information at once accessible and aesthetically engaging, this work is a forerunner to the information graphics that today define much of our data consumption.