I never co uld quite see the reasonableness of this immemorial law: subjects there are, no doubt, which are in their essence too serious to admit of any lightness of treatment – but I cannot recognise Geometry as one of them. In one respect this book is an experiment, and may chance to prove a failure : I mean that I have not thought it necessary to maintain throu ghout the gravity of style which scientific writers usually affect, and which has somehow come to be regarded as an 'inseparable accident' of scientific teaching. It utilized the fisheye effect, which made only part of the text readable. The logo included a quote from the preface of the 1879 book Euclid and his Modern Rivals by Lewis Carroll. It was used as the logo for the website until the end of 2001. Wikipedia's first true logo was an image that was originally submitted by Bjørn Smestad, under the username Bjornsm, for a Nupedia logo competition which took place in 2000.
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