Editing Euclid (section)

==Legacy==
{{see also|List of things named after Euclid}}
[[File:Byrne1.png|thumb|upright|The cover page of [[Oliver Byrne (mathematician)|Oliver Byrne]]'s 1847 colored edition of the ''Elements'']]

Euclid is generally considered with Archimedes and Apollonius of Perga as among the greatest mathematicians of antiquity.{{sfn|Ball|1960|p=[https://archive.org/details/shortaccountofhi0000ball/page/52/mode/2up 52]}} Many commentators cite him as one of the most influential figures in the [[history of mathematics]].{{sfn|Bruno|2003|p=[https://archive.org/details/mathmathematicia00brun/page/125 125]}} The geometrical system established by the ''Elements'' long dominated the field; however, today that system is often referred to as '[[Euclidean geometry]]' to distinguish it from other [[Non-Euclidean geometry|non-Euclidean geometries]] discovered in the early 19th century.{{sfn|Taisbak|Van der Waerden|2021|loc=§ "Legacy"}} Among Euclid's [[List of things named after Euclid|many namesakes]] are the [[European Space Agency]]'s (ESA) [[Euclid (spacecraft)|Euclid]] spacecraft,<ref>{{cite news |date=9 May 2017 |title=NASA Delivers Detectors for ESA's Euclid Spacecraft |publisher=[[Jet Propulsion Laboratory]] |url=https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=6840}}</ref> the lunar crater [[Euclides (crater)|Euclides]],<ref>{{cite web |title=Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature {{!}} Euclides |url=http://planetarynames.wr.usgs.gov/Feature/1860 |access-date=September 3, 2017 |website=usgs.gov |publisher=[[International Astronomical Union]]}}</ref> and the minor planet [[4354 Euclides]].<ref>{{cite web |title=4354 Euclides (2142 P-L) |url=https://www.minorplanetcenter.net/db_search/show_object?object_id=4354 |access-date=27 May 2018 |publisher=Minor Planet Center}}</ref>

The ''Elements'' is often considered after the [[Bible]] as the most frequently translated, published, and studied book in the [[Western World]]'s history.{{sfn|Taisbak|Van der Waerden|2021|loc=§ "Legacy"}} With Aristotle's ''[[Metaphysics (Aristotle)|Metaphysics]]'', the ''Elements'' is perhaps the most successful ancient Greek text, and was the dominant mathematical textbook in the Medieval Arab and Latin worlds.{{sfn|Taisbak|Van der Waerden|2021|loc=§ "Legacy"}}

The first English edition of the ''Elements'' was published in 1570 by [[Henry Billingsley]] and [[John Dee]].{{sfn|Goulding|2010|p=120}} The mathematician [[Oliver Byrne (mathematician)|Oliver Byrne]] published a well-known version of the ''Elements''  in 1847 entitled ''The First Six Books of the Elements of Euclid in Which Coloured Diagrams and Symbols Are Used Instead of Letters for the Greater Ease of Learners'', which included colored diagrams intended to increase its pedagogical effect.{{sfn|Hawes|Kolpas|2015}} [[David Hilbert]] authored a [[Hilbert's axioms|modern axiomatization]] of the ''Elements''.{{sfn|Hähl|Peters|2022|loc=§ para. 1}} [[Edna St. Vincent Millay]] wrote that "Euclid alone has looked on Beauty bare."<ref>{{cite book| last=Millay| first=Edna St. Vincent| author-link=Edna St. Vincent Millay| title=Euclid alone has looked on Beauty bare| url=https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/148566/euclid-alone-has-looked-on-beauty-bare}}</ref>