Billingsley was a mathematics graduate of Cambridge University and well versed in Greek.
Billingsleys translation was a magnum opus.
The finished work was over a thousand pages.
It was one of the first books to include such a feature.
These pop-up models occur throughout Book XI on solid geometry and were hand-glued into each copy of the work.
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Flaps used to represent three-dimensional shapes.
Thus his book is erroneously titled The Elements of Geometrie of the Most Ancient Philosopher Euclide of Megara.
