TY - JOUR
AU1 - Alexanderson, Gerald L.
AU2 - Greenwalt, William S.
AU3 - 
AB - MATHEMATICAL PERSPECTIVES BULLETIN (New Series) OF THE AMERICAN MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY Volume 49, Number 1, January 2012, Pages 163–167 S 0273-0979(2011)01365-9 Article electronically published on October 25, 2011 ABOUT THE COVER: BILLINGSLEY’S EUCLID IN ENGLISH GERALD L. ALEXANDERSON AND WILLIAM S. GREENWALT Before Gutenberg invented movable type, the Elements of Euclid was accessible only through some manuscripts. The first printed version came along roughly 25 years later, when Erhard Ratdolt in Venice produced the first printed Elements in 1482. And a splendid work it is, with beautifully engraved decorative initial letters and borders. It also provided generous outer margins that contain the necessary engravings of geometric figures. As with most printed material of the time, what we would now expect to find on a title page appeared at the end as a colophon. There one found information on the author, the title, the origin of the work, the name of the printer, and the date. There was only one more edition of the Elements in the 15th century, the period that produced books that are now called incunabula [5]. The first part of the 16th century provided another twelve editions, still in Latin or occasionally Greek, and it was not 
TI - About the cover: Billingsley’s Euclid in English
JF - Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society
DO - 10.1090/s0273-0979-2011-01365-9
DA - 2012-01-01
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