Shifting the foundations: Descartes's transformation of ancient geometry

DOI10.1016/0315-0860(76)90004-5zbMath0332.01005OpenAlexW1991607142MaRDI QIDQ1227569

A. G. Molland

Publication date: 1976

Published in: Historia Mathematica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/0315-0860(76)90004-5

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 17th century (01A45) History of geometry (51-03)

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