MR. TAYLOR's present work is by no means a second edition of his “Geometrical Conies”(1863). His object in this volume is a highly laudable one; from more than one quarter has recently come the ...

Vol. 44, No. 5/6, SPECIAL ISSUE: Mathematics in Kant's Critical Philosophy (December 2014), pp. 719-758 (40 pages) This paper tries to make sense of Kant's scattered remarks about conic sections to ...

From Figure a. it is apparent that the distance from one focus, to a point in the orbit, to the other focus is a constant. From Figure b. it appears that areas encompassed between two points in an ...