We also comment on the reception of this treatise in Italy, and abroad, especially in England, where—since the late eighteenth century—several authors found inspiration in Boscovich's work to write ...

Geometrical Conic Sections: an Elementary Treatise, in which the Conic Sections are defined as the Plane Sections of a Cone, and treated by the Method of Projections. By J. Stewart Jackson.

An Elementary Treatise on Conic Sections by the Methods of Coordinate Geometry. By C. Smith. New edition, revised and enlarged. Pp. x + 449. (London: Macmillan and Co ...