THE portions of the title-pages we have above given sufficiently indicate the scope of the two works under review and the measure of acceptance they have met with. As we have already given an account ...
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 ...
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 ...