The physicalist tradition in early nineteenth century French geometry

DOI10.1016/0039-3681(86)90010-5zbMath0601.01016OpenAlexW2086715341MaRDI QIDQ3735669

Lorraine Daston

Publication date: 1986

Published in: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/0039-3681(86)90010-5

zbMATH Keywords

projective geometrysynthetic geometrydescriptive geometryfoundation of the calculus

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Philosophy of mathematics (00A30) History of mathematics in the 19th century (01A55)

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