The old textbook on geometry has become an online resource

Designer Nicholas Rouget turned the famous textbook on geometry by Oliver Byrne into an online resource.

One of the strangest and most beautiful books of the 19th century illustrates Echlid's The Beginnings using color schemes instead of text. The colorful edition was first published in 1847. Byrne reduced the descriptions to a minimum and focused readers on color charts.

The site consists of six sections: planes, geometric algebra, circles and angles, regular polygons, ratios and proportions, geometric proportions.

Ruzhe made each illustration clickable and accompanied by evidence that Euclid cites. The designer also created a poster with 269 illustrations, which can be purchased on his website.

Earlier, Ruzher digitized Werner's Color Nomenclature, which contains 110 colors with descriptions and examples.