IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This solid wooden model is stained ...

In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, physical models were widely used by mathematics educators to depict a wide range of mathematical ideas in three dimensions. Most models were constructed in ...

MR. TAYLOR's present work is by no means a second edition of his “Geometrical Conies”(1863). His object in this volume is a highly laudable one; from more than one quarter has recently come the ...

ON the whole, Mr. Benny's book is one that we would heartily recommend to the class of students he had in mind while writing it. It is not a book for beginners; it is not a book for mathematical ...

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 ...

Archive for History of Exact Sciences, Vol. 74, No. 5 (September 2020), pp. 469-521 (53 pages) Through an in-depth analysis of the notes that Leibniz made while reading Pascal's manuscript treatise on ...