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 ...
A TEXT-BOOK for students who have already finished the straight line and circle: its contents are about equally divided between the conic sections and the geometry of three dimensions, finishing with ...
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 ...