Pascal's mystic \textit{hexagram}, and a conjectural restoration of his lost treatise on conic sections

DOI10.1007/S00407-020-00251-2zbMATH Open1450.01003OpenAlexW3040844606WikidataQ113107587 ScholiaQ113107587MaRDI QIDQ2201992FDOQ2201992

Authors: A. Del Centina 

Publication date: 17 September 2020

Published in: Archive for History of Exact Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00407-020-00251-2

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zbMATH Keywords

hexagrammum mysticumorganic constructionPappus' problem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 17th century (01A45)

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