Mathematical Treasure: John Keill’s Euclid’s Elements of Geometry

John Keill (1671–1721) was a Scottish mathematician and an associate of Isaac Newton. His English-language translation of Euclid’s Elements was published in 1723. The following images are from the second edition of 1728.

This edition contained pop-up plates. Some examples are shown here:

The images above were obtained through the courtesy of the British Library; the volume is available in digital form through the Eighteenth Century Collections Online database. The Internet Archive has a digitization of the first edition from the University of Michigan. Images from the most famous pop-up version of Euclid’s Elements, by Henry Billingsley, are also available in Mathematical Treasures.

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