Geometrical astronomy: one of the ancient tablets. (Courtesy: Trustees of the British Museum/Mathieu Ossendrijver) Ancient Babylonian astronomers may have used geometry to calculate the motion of ...

MODERN speculations on the Foundations of Geometry have raised the question of the character of Geometry as a science, and the question has been answered in different ways. Some writers have held that ...

I SEE your reviewer of Prof. Veronese's book on “Abstract Geometry” says: “Apparently this method” (that of pure geometry, free from axes, algebraic processes, &c.) “has not previously been applied to ...