Mathematical Treasure: Johann Vögelin’s Elementale geometricum ex Euclidis geometrica decerptum

Johann Vögelin (d. 1549) was a German mathematics teacher. In 1550, his Elementale geometricum, which was excerpted from Euclid’s Elements of Geometry, was published in Paris.

The opening pages were heavily annotated by previous readers:

The images above are provided courtesy of Bamberg State Library. A full digitization of this manuscript is available here.

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