When we think of 3D technology, we don’t often think of the sixteenth century books. However, printers have found ways to creative interactive texts since printing began. For example, Euclid’s The Elements of Geometrie included shapes that buyers could cut out and glue onto the pages of their book. These cut-outs would then form the three-dimensional shapes described in the text, like the pyramid above!
Euclid, The Elements of Geometrie of the Most Auncient Philosopher Euclide of Megara (Imprinted at London: by John Daye, 1570). Q. 516.2 Eu2:E1570.
