Geometrical Conic Sections: an Elementary Treatise, in which the Conic Sections are defined as the Plane Sections of a Cone, and treated by the Method of Projections. By J. Stewart Jackson.

We also comment on the reception of this treatise in Italy, and abroad, especially in England, where—since the late eighteenth century—several authors found inspiration in Boscovich's work to write ...

This paper tries to make sense of Kant's scattered remarks about conic sections to see what light they shed on his philosophy of mathematics. It proceeds by confronting his remarks with the source ...