Fold-up geometrical illustrations in the first English edition of Euclid’s ‘Elements of Geometry,’ published London, 1570. John Dee wrote a mathematical preface to the book. (© Royal College of ...

Our understanding of Ancient Greece relies on the few surviving books, among the countless lost ones, shaping what we know ...

You may have been late returning a library book, but how about 50 years late? A customer recently returned some books to the Cincinnati & Hamilton County Public Library in Cincinnati, Ohio, with a ...