{"id":7318,"date":"2010-11-11T14:13:16","date_gmt":"2010-11-11T18:13:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.brown.edu\/bulspecialcollections\/?p=353"},"modified":"2010-11-11T14:13:16","modified_gmt":"2010-11-11T18:13:16","slug":"353-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/353-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Focus on Special Collections: Euclid&#8217;s Elements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.brown.edu\/bulspecialcollections\/files\/2010\/11\/EuclidImage10.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.brown.edu\/bulspecialcollections\/files\/2010\/11\/EuclidImage10-300x184.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"184\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-367\" \/><\/a>Euclid&#8217;s Elements, composed 2400 years ago, is among the most ancient of Greek mathematical treatises and one of the first to be printed using movable type. \u00a0Complete with illustrations and diagrams, it has been considered an essential component of educational curricula for centuries. \u00a0At noon, on November 16, 2010, come to the Lownes Room in the John Hay Library to learn more about the history of the most influential textbook ever written.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Euclid&#8217;s Elements, composed 2400 years ago, is among the most ancient of Greek mathematical treatises and one of the first to be printed using movable type. \u00a0Complete with illustrations and diagrams, it has been considered an essential component of educational curricula for centuries. \u00a0At noon, on November 16, 2010, come to the Lownes Room in <a href=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/353-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Focus on Special Collections: Euclid&#8217;s Elements<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exhibits-events","category-general-interest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7318\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}