Image credits and licences
All historical images on this site are in the public domain or openly licensed. The list below is generated from our asset records; each page also credits its images directly.
The texts, drawings and videos of Beautiful Mathematics are © Fahmi Waez, all rights reserved, unless stated otherwise.
| Work | Author | Source | Licence | Changes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Euclid, Elements I.47 — Greek manuscript, Vatican Library, MS Vat. gr. 190, vol. 1, ff. 38v–39r (9th century?) | Unknown scribe | https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Euclid_Vat_ms_no_190_I_prop_47.jpg | Public domain | Resized to 1400 px, converted to WebP |
| Oliver Byrne, The First Six Books of the Elements of Euclid (London: William Pickering, 1847), p. 48 — Book I, Prop. XLVII | Oliver Byrne | https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Byrne-48.png (scan: UBC Digital Math Archive) | Public domain | Converted to WebP |
| Oliver Byrne, The First Six Books of the Elements of Euclid (London: William Pickering, 1847), p. 49 — Book I, Prop. XLVII (end) | Oliver Byrne | https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Byrne-49.png (scan: UBC Digital Math Archive) | Public domain | Converted to WebP |
| James A. Garfield, seated portrait (Brady-Handy Photograph Collection, Library of Congress), c. 1870–1880 | Brady-Handy studio | https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:James_Abram_Garfield,_photo_portrait_seated_(3x4_cropped).jpg | Public domain | Cropped (3:4, Commons version), resized to 960 px, converted to WebP |
| Archimedes, Measurement of a Circle, Proposition 1 with the triangle figure — Latin part of the first printed edition (Basel, 1544), p. 55 | Archimedes; printed in Basel 1544 (BEIC digital library) | https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Archimedes_-_Opere,_1544_-_1291605_pagina_55.jpeg | Public domain | Converted to WebP |
| Euclid, Elements XII.7, figure of the prism ABCDEF with the lines BD, EC and CD — first English edition, translated by Henry Billingsley (London: John Daye, 1570), fol. 366 | Euclid; translated by Henry Billingsley | https://archive.org/details/elementsgeometr00eucl (page n895) | Public domain | Cropped, converted to WebP |
| Euclid, Elements XII.7, corollary — first English edition (Billingsley, London 1570), fol. 366 | Euclid; translated by Henry Billingsley | https://archive.org/details/elementsgeometr00eucl (page n895) | Public domain | Cropped, converted to WebP |
| A page of the Archimedes Palimpsest (10th-century text, overwritten as a prayer book, 1229) | © The Owner of the Archimedes Palimpsest (via The Walters Art Museum) | https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ArPalimTypPage.jpg | CC BY 3.0 | Converted to WebP |
| Benjamin West, Cicero Discovering the Tomb of Archimedes (1804), Yale University Art Gallery 1963.49 — an imagined scene | Benjamin West | https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Benjamin_West_-_Cicero_Discovering_the_Tomb_of_Archimede_-_1963.49_-_Yale_University_Art_Gallery.jpg | Public domain | Resized to 1200 px, converted to WebP |
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