Mathematical Treasure: Lucas Brunn’s Euclidis Elementa Practica and Praxis Perspectivae

Lucas Brunn (1572–1628) was a Professor of Mathematics at Wittenberg University. In 1625, he published a German-language version of Euclid’s Elements. This is an image of the title page:

Sample pages from Brunn’s text:

This work has been fully digitized by Wolfenbüttel Digital Library of the Herzog August Library, Germany, and is made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Germany License (CC BY-SA).

In 1615, Brunn published a series of engravings titled Praxis Perspectivae that dealt with drawing projections and shadows. For demonstration purposes, he used letters of the alphabet.

These images were collected by Deutsche Fotothek. A full digitization of this work is available from GoogleBooks.

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