Author: Edward T. Dixon

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2019-01-21

Total Pages: 98

ISBN-13: 9780365258841

Excerpt from A Paper on the Foundations of Projective Geometry: Read Before the Aristotelian Society, Dec, 13, 1897 Mr. Russell commences his book with the statement that throughout the 17th and 18th centuries Geometry remained, in the war against empiricism, an impregnable fortress of the idealists, meaning that they successfully maintained the position that in Geometry at least we had obtained certain knowledge about the real world, independently of experience. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.