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Geometrical constructions

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• Geometry

• Geometrical constructions in art

• Constructions, Geometric
• Constructions, Geometrical
• Geometric constructions

• Islamic Art and Geometric Design: Activities for Learning (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c2004)
  • PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org
  • page images and PDF with commentary at Metropolitan Museum of Art and Google

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Geometry Unbound (c2006), by Kiran Sridhara Kedlaya (PDF with commentary at kskedlayaorg)
• Geometric Topology: Localization, Periodicity and Galois Symmetry (The 1970 MIT Notes) (electronic edition, ca. 2005), by Dennis Sullivan, ed. by Andrew Ranicki (PDF in the UK)
• Model Theory, Algebra, and Geometry (2000), ed. by Deirdre Haskell, Anand Pillay, and Charles Steinhorn (PDF files with commentary at msri.org)
• Cours de Géométrie Élémentaire, avec de Nombreux Exercices (second edition, in French; Tours: A. Mame et fils; et al., 1912), by G. Marie (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• An Elementary Treatise on Modern Pure Geometry, by R. Lachlan (page images at Cornell)
• Elements of Geometry and Trigonometry, by A. M. Legendre and Charles Davies, ed. by J. Howard Van Amringe (page images at Cornell)
• The First Six Books of the Elements of Euclid, and Propositions I.-XXI. of Book XI., and an Appendix on the Cylinder, Sphere, Cone, Etc., With Copious Annotations and Numerous Exercises (Dublin: Hodges, Figgis and Co., 1885), by Euclid and John Casey (page images at Cornell)
• Geometriske Eksperimenter (in Danish; Copenhagen: Jul. Gjellerups Forlag, 1913), by Johannes Hjelmslev (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Introduction to Mathematics (Reading, MA and London: Addison-Wesley Pub. Co., 1961), by Charles Francis Brumfiel, Robert E. Eicholz, and Merrill Shanks (page images at HathiTrust)
• Byrne's Euclid: The First Six Books of the Elements of Euclid, With Coloured Diagrams and Symbols, by Euclid, ed. by Oliver Byrne and Nicholas Rougeux (JavaScript-dependent illustrated HTML at c82.net)
• An Elementary Treatise on Pure Geometry with Numerous Examples, by John Wellesley Russell (page images at Cornell)
• La Recente Geometria del Triangolo (in Italian; Città di Castello: S. Lapi, 1900), by Cristoforo Alasia
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Lectures on Fundamental Concepts of Algebra and Geometry (1911), by John Wesley Young (page images at Cornell)

• Shape Interrogation for Computer Aided Design and Manufacturing (hyperbook edition, 2009), by N. M. Patrikalakis, Takashi Maekawa, and Wonjoon Cho (illustrated HTML at MIT)

• Turtle Geometry: The Computer as a Medium for Exploring Mathematics (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1986), by Harold Abelson and Harold Abelson and Andrea diSessa (PDF files with commentary at at MIT Press)

• Motion, Control, and Geometry: Proceedings of a Symposium (1997), by National Research Council Commission on Physical Sciences, Mathematics, and Applications (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Art Gallery Theorems and Algorithms (1987), by Joseph O'Rourke (PDF files at Smith)
• Shape Interrogation for Computer Aided Design and Manufacturing (hyperbook edition, 2009), by N. M. Patrikalakis, Takashi Maekawa, and Wonjoon Cho (illustrated HTML at MIT)

• Euclid's Elements of Geometry (Greek text from Heiberg's edition, with English translation and notes by the editor; 2008), by Euclid, ed. by Richard Fitzpatrick, contrib. by J. L. Heiberg (PDF with commentary at Texas)
• Brouillon Project d'une Atteinte aux Evenemens des Rencontres du Cone avec un Plan, par L,S,G,D,L (in French; 1639), by Gérard Desargues
  • page images at Gallica
  • black and white facsimile with slightly different page order: page images at Gallica
• Francisci à Schooten Principia Matheseos Universalis, seu Introductio ad Geometriae Methodum Renati Des Cartes (in Latin; Leiden: Ex Officinâ Elseviriorum, 1651), by Frans van Schooten, ed. by Erasmus Bartholin
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Aritmetica, e Geometria Prattica (in Italian; Naples: C. Troyse and G.-D. Pietroboni, 1697), by Elia del Re
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Aritmetica, e Geometria Prattica (in Italian; Naples: N. Migliaccio, 1733), by Elia del Re (multiple formats at Google)
• Pyrotechnia: or, A Discourse of Artificiall Fire-Works... Whereunto is Annexed a Short Treatise of Geometrie (London: Printed by T. Harper for R. Mab, 1635), by John Babington
  • page images here at Penn
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • HTML at EEBO TCP
• Utriusque Cosmi Maioris Scilicet et Minoris Metaphysica, Physica atque Technica Historia (2 volumes, in Latin; ca. 1617), by Robert Fludd
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
• Euclidis Elementa (5 volumes in Greek and Latin; Leipzig: B. G. Teubner, 1883-1888), by Euclid, ed. by J. L. Heiberg
  • Volume I (books 1-4): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II (books 5-9): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III (book 10): page images in Germany
  • Volume IV (books 11-13): page images in Germany
  • Volume V (books 14 and 15 by later authors, sometimes attributed to Euclid): multiple formats at archive.org
• The Geometrical Lectures of Isaac Barrow, by Isaac Barrow, trans. by J. M. Child (page images at Cornell)
• Geometrical Solutions Derived From Mechanics: A Treatise of Archimedes (with LaTeX markup), by Archimedes, trans. by J. L. Heiberg and Lydia Gillingham Robinson, contrib. by David Eugene Smith (Gutenberg text)
• The Geometry of René Descartes, by René Descartes, trans. by David Eugene Smith and Marcia L. Latham (PDF at djm.cc)
• Tychonis Brahe Triangulorum Planorum et Sphaericorum Praxis Arithmetica, Qua Maximus Eorum Praesertim in Astronomicis Usus Compendiose Explicatur (facsimile of a 1591 manuscript attributed by Studnicka to Brahe, with notes, in Latin; Prague: Ex Officina Polygraphica Ios. Farsky, 1886), by Tycho Brahe, ed. by F. I. Studnicka (page images at HathiTrust)
• Elements, by Euclid, ed. by D. E. Joyce, trans. by Thomas Little Heath (illustrated HTML at clarku.edu)
• Elements (English and Greek), by Euclid, trans. by Thomas Little Heath (HTML with commentary at Perseus)
• Harmonies of the World, by Johannes Kepler, trans. by Charles Glenn Wallis (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
• The Method of Archimedes, Recently Discovered by Heiberg: A Supplement to the Works of Archimedes, 1897 (Cambridge: At the University Press, 1912), by Archimedes, ed. by Thomas Little Heath, contrib. by J. L. Heiberg (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Works of Archimedes, Edited in Modern Notation With Introductory Chapters (Cambridge: At the University Press, 1897), by Archimedes, ed. by Thomas Little Heath (multiple formats at archive.org)

• An Essay on the Foundations of Geometry (Cambridge: At the University Press, 1897), by Bertrand Russell (multiple formats at Google; US access only)
• The Foundations of Mathematics: A Contribution to the Philosophy of Geometry, by Paul Carus (page images at Cornell)

• Greek Geometry, from Thales to Euclid, by George Johnston Allman (page images at Cornell)
• The Story of Euclid (London: George Newnes, 1902), by William Barrett Frankland (PDF at djm.cc)

• Euclid and His Twentieth Century Rivals: Diagrams in the Logic of Euclidean Geometry (prepublication version, 2007), by Nathaniel Miller (PDF at unco.edu)
• Euclid and His Modern Rivals (London: Macmillan and Co., 1879), by Lewis Carroll (page images at HathiTrust)
• Euclid and His Modern Rivals (second edition; London: Macmillan, 1885), by Lewis Carroll
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Balkan Journal of Geometry and its Applications (1996-) (full serial archives)
• Geometry and Topology (issues more than 5 years old are open access) (partial serial archives)

• A Fuller Explanation: The Synergetic Geometry of R. Buckminster Fuller (Pueblo, CO: EmergentWorld Press, c2007), by Amy C. Edmondson (page images at Google)
• A Fuller Explanation: The Synergetic Geometry of R. Buckminster Fuller (1987 edition), by Amy C. Edmondson (HTML at pauladaunt.com)

• Advanced Problems in Mathematics: Preparing for University (new revised edition; Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2019), by S. T. C. Siklos (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)
• Paper Folding for the Mathematics Class (Washington: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, c1957), by Donovan A. Johnson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Méthodes et Théories pour la Resolution des Problèmes de Constructions Géométriques, Avec Application à Plus de 400 Problèmes (third edition, in French; Paris: Gauthier-Villars et fils; Copenhagen: A. F. Høst et fils, 1901), by Julius Petersen, trans. by Octave Chemin (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Methods and Theories for the Solution of Problems of Geometrical Constructions, Applied to 410 Problems (Copenhagen: A. F. Høst and Son; London: S. Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington, 1879), by Julius Petersen, trans. by Sophus Haagensen
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• A Key to the Exercises in the First Six Books of Casey's Elements of Euclid, by Joseph Casey (page images at Cornell)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.