(participating with tweets on their Euclid-related collections)
Between 21 and 30 May 2018, the Wellcome Library Twitter feed posted tweets on Euclid each day, with links to related material in their collections. The tweets are copied here for easy reference in the future:
Libraries in Britain & Ireland are #seeingEuclid @ReadingEuclid this summer. This copy of Euclid’s Elements (Oxford 1685) was bought for 2 shillings 8 pence by Thomas Foley (the ironmaster?) of Witley Court near Worcester https://t.co/UIoIcc1yHE pic.twitter.com/nxE3YfWGdd
— Wellcome Library (@WellcomeLibrary) May 21, 2018
Libraries in Britain & Ireland are #seeingEuclid @ReadingEuclid this summer. Euclid’s Elements (London 1685) owned by John Gorham 1734, and by his kinsman W Fuller Maitland of Stansted (1813-1876) cricketer and MP https://t.co/J4LkAKOgd9 pic.twitter.com/iTK7dRVy6v
— Wellcome Library (@WellcomeLibrary) May 22, 2018
Libraries in Britain & Ireland are #seeingEuclid @ReadingEuclid this summer. Ptolemy and Euclid as patron saints of mathematics. “For God, the universe is as a handful of dust” https://t.co/urGDIX8kXL pic.twitter.com/pY9jWz46ce
— Wellcome Library (@WellcomeLibrary) May 23, 2018
Libraries in Britain & Ireland are #seeingEuclid @ReadingEuclid this summer. This Wellcome copy of Euclid’s Elements (Cambridge 1665) has a geometrical diagram scored in the leather binding by a previous owner https://t.co/AbX2Vn6Dws pic.twitter.com/NZlZIjMGM2
— Wellcome Library (@WellcomeLibrary) May 24, 2018
Libraries in Britain & Ireland are #seeingEuclid @ReadingEuclid this summer. Good God! A woman can read Euclid’s Elements! Mezzotint “The female philosopher in extasy” 1772 https://t.co/zWcsZ1M6TD pic.twitter.com/vCoScYUqp5
— Wellcome Library (@WellcomeLibrary) May 25, 2018
Libraries in Britain & Ireland are #seeingEuclid @ReadingEuclid this summer. Italian manuscript translation of Euclid with additions, “Sei elementi di geometrica” copied in 1748, from Torre del Gallo, Florence https://t.co/pfOcpw5mKu pic.twitter.com/MZxIOSOzrA
— Wellcome Library (@WellcomeLibrary) May 26, 2018
Libraries in Britain & Ireland are #seeingEuclid @ReadingEuclid this summer. Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève, Paris 1688, displaying sculptures of Socrates and Euclid https://t.co/4bJ08pRQws pic.twitter.com/rnTZxtHfpv
— Wellcome Library (@WellcomeLibrary) May 27, 2018
Libraries in Britain & Ireland are #seeingEuclid @ReadingEuclid this summer. Between 1687 and 1700 you could buy Euclid’s Elements with globes, quadrants etc at theshop of Samuel Pepys’s friend Philip Lea in Cheapside https://t.co/3p6aS6BBGy pic.twitter.com/uxbgMAqYcQ
— Wellcome Library (@WellcomeLibrary) May 28, 2018
Libraries in Britain & Ireland are #seeingEuclid @ReadingEuclid this summer. The first Euclid printed in France (Paris: Stephanus/Estienne 1516) with ownership statement of "Nouguier [?] et amicorum" https://t.co/LfaCO8Q6BA pic.twitter.com/gNlJvhL2yJ
— Wellcome Library (@WellcomeLibrary) May 29, 2018
For the final tweet in our #seeingEuclid @ReadingEuclid season: a reader of a French translation of Euclid's Elements (Paris 1632) explains it to himself in Latin https://t.co/KCmP3FZJS2 p. 202 pic.twitter.com/fYtRWfTCDl
— Wellcome Library (@WellcomeLibrary) May 30, 2018
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