Hello Artful Dodger, thank you for your kind words. I'm happy that you liked the episode. At the moment I'm working at Part 2 of this episode. I wish you a nice day. 🌟📚📖🌟😁
Very nice overview. The other books I would also recommend as I am sure you know are those by Thomas Heath, still available for purchase. Heath provides a truly in-depth and an incredible level of scholarship into all of Euclid’s books. His written style is also outstanding. It seems that Euclid brings out the best in people.
Hello @herbertsauromain thank you for sharing your suggestion. I did not know about Thomas Health. Do you mean this book: The thirteen books of Euclid's Elements (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1908)? Thank you again for pointing me to this author. I wish you a very nice day. 🌟😊📚📖👍
Another though provoking video, another book (and author) to search out. Actually I just picked up a set of compasses for the first time since my schooldays, inspired by the beautiful, serene geometry of the sculptor Barbara Hepworth, and could barely remember how to draw an accurate circle or intersect it with a line....and as for fractals... very much looking forward to your next installment.
Dear Jane Irisa, Thank you for your kind words and support. I'm happy that you liked the video. Also thank you for sharing the little story about the compasses and about Barbara Hepworth. I just looked her up online and I'm looking forward to learn more about her. I wish you a wonderful day 🌟📚📖🌟🙏🏽
Much fuss (and mischief) is made with claims that some ''Holy Book'' has ''miraculously'' been unchanged for centuries and provides us with deep knowledge etc etc. None of them compare to this kind of human, rational, and cross-cultural treasure. Many thanks for creating this doorway into a little world of sanity. MDP.
Excellent overview of one of the most important books in human possession. I wonder if you might next take on the Herculean task of reviewing Dioscorides' 'De Materia Medica'? It is boder-line as a factual book, but the 'doctrine of signatures' hypothesis guided medicine for about 1,700 years... and like alchemy leading to chemistry, it was a rich and valiant enterprise. MDP.
Outstanding book recommendation and an excellent episode. Euclid is one of the great survivors of history. His writings were among the lucky few that kept being copied by hand and protected from the countless fires, wars, revenges and natural disasters that destroyed most of the books of antiquity before the printing press. Glad to see that Taschen keeps up the tradition!
8:20 you’re doing yourself a disservice by not mentioning that Euclid is using the newly invented science of reasoning created by Aristotle. Aristotle in his Organon invents the syllogism which Euclid uses exclusively in the Elements, and uses the ways of proving premises Aristotle teaches.
