This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract In this paper, we describe the genesis of Boscovich's Sectionum Conicarum Elementa and discuss the motivations which led him to write this ...
Vol. 44, No. 5/6, SPECIAL ISSUE: Mathematics in Kant's Critical Philosophy (December 2014), pp. 719-758 (40 pages) This paper tries to make sense of Kant's scattered remarks about conic sections to ...
THE assertion made in the opening lines of the preface to the book now before us, that “to the great majority of mathematicians at the present time, Apollonius is nothing more than a name and his ...
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