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Re:The Minimalist Beauty of a Renaissance-Era Geometry Book by rotten on Saturday December 24, 2016 @09:21AM (#13249853)
This is before printing presses could produce images or diagrams - so they all had to be hand drawn in each copy.
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Re:The Minimalist Beauty of a Renaissance-Era Geometry Book by xtiansimon on Saturday December 24, 2016 @10:27AM (#13250110)
_"...hand drawn in each copy."_

?? Printed engraving[1] was available contemporay with the publishing of this book (1568). What do you mean?

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engraving

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