Michel Chasles' foundational programme for geometry until the publication of his \textit{Aperçu historique}
It is argued that the French mathematician Michel Chasles developed a foundational programme for geometry in the period 1827--1837 (see [JFM 21.0033.01]). The basic concept behind this programme was to show that projective geometry is the foundation of the whole geometry. The author claims that he conceptual itinerary that starts from Chasles' studies on polarity and end with his results based on the cross-ratio represents the itinerary of his foundational programme. This line of thought is followed, it is placed in the context of what was then called descriptive geometry, and connections with the later great results of von Staudt, Cayley and Klein are outlined.
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- ``Geometrical equations: forgotten premises of Felix Klein's \textit{Erlanger Programm}
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- Jakob Steiner's \textit{Systematische Entwickelung}: the culmination of classical geometry
- Notes on the History of Geometrical Ideas II. The Principle of Duality
- Plato's ghost. The modernist transformation of mathematics
- The argument of generality in Carnot, Poncelet and Chasles
- The fundamental theorem of projective geometry: evolution of its proof between 1847 and 1900
- The Rise and Fall of Projective Geometry
- Worlds Out of Nothing
- An unpublished lecture by Chasles at the Sorbonne: `Considerations on the theory of conical sections', opening lecture of the higher geometry course (1847--1848)
- Chasles and the projective geometry. The birth of a global foundational programme for mathematics, mechanics and philosophy
- Mathematics in the archives: deconstructive historiography and the shaping of modern geometry (1837–1852)
- Conceptual frameworks on the relationship between physics-mathematics in the Newton \textit{Principia Geneva} edition (1822)
- The ancients and the moderns: Chasles on Euclid's lost \textit{porisms} and the pursuit of geometry
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