...general nature of descriptive geometry by determining its logical character, we have to observe that, while it belongs to the geometry of the ancients by...fact eminently remarkable for that generality which, as we saw in the preceding chapter, constitutes the true fundamental character of modern geometry ;...

...while it belongs to the gcometiy of the ancients by the character of its solutions, it approaches to the geometry of the moderns by the nature of the questions •which compose it. Consisting, as we have said, of a few abstract problems, obtained through Projections, and relating...

...in its elementary and positive acceptation, in picturing to ourselves, clearly and easily, a large and variable collection of ideal objects, as if they...conceived as applicable to any figures whatever, the peculiarty of each having only a purely secondary influence." AUGUST CONTE : Ctnirs de Philosophie...

...while it belongs to the geometry of the ancients by the character of its solutions, it approaches to the geometry of the moderns by the nature of the questions which compose it. — COMTE, A. Positive Philosophy [Martineau] Bk. 1, chap. 8. 1884. There is perhaps nothing which...

...in its elementary and positive acceptation, in picturing to ourselves, clearly and easily, a large and variable collection of ideal objects, as if they...conceived as applicable to any figures whatever, the peculiarly of each having only a purely secondary influence." AUGUST CONTE : Cours de Philosophic Positive....

...the other hand it approaches the geometry of the moderns by the nature of the questions which compase it. These questions are in fact eminently remarkable...conceived as applicable to any figures •whatever, the peculiarly of each having only a purely secondary influence." AUGUST CONTE : Cours de Philosophic Positive....