On Kepler's system of conics in \textit{Astronomiae pars optica}

DOI10.1007/s00407-016-0175-2zbMath1355.01011OpenAlexW2341062267MaRDI QIDQ343825

Andrea Del Centina

Publication date: 29 November 2016

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00407-016-0175-2

zbMATH Keywords

orthogonal projectionanalogynon-cone based system of conicstheory of shadow

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 17th century (01A45) History of optics and electromagnetic theory (78-03)

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• Two mathematical inventions in Kepler's ‘Ad vitellionem paralipomena’
• L'œuvre de Pascal en géométrie projective
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