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  1. Pascal’s mystic hexagram, and a conjectural restoration of his lost treatise on conic sections.Andrea Del Centina - 2020 - Archive for History of Exact Sciences 74 (5):469-521.
    Through an in-depth analysis of the notes that Leibniz made while reading Pascal’s manuscript treatise on conic sections, we aim to show the real extension of what he called “hexagrammum mysticum”, and to highlight the main results he achieved in this field, as well as proposing plausible proofs of them according to the methods he seems to have developed.
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  • On Kepler’s system of conics in Astronomiae pars optica.Andrea Del Centina - 2016 - Archive for History of Exact Sciences 70 (6):567-589.
    This is an attempt to explain Kepler’s invention of the first “non-cone-based” system of conics, and to put it into a historical perspective.
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  • Kepler y el teorema fundamental de la óptica.Carlos Alberto Cardona - 2021 - Principia: An International Journal of Epistemology 25 (1).
    En el artículo se ofrece un análisis de los argumentos que condujeron a Kepler a la defensa y demostración del teorema fundamental de la óptica. Según este teorema, un haz homocéntrico de luz que se ve obligado a atravesar una esfera transparente, siempre que la amplitud del haz no sea mayor, se concentra de nuevo en un punto al otro lado de la esfera. La demostración de Kepler se compara con la ofrecida por Malebranche años más tarde. Este teorema fue (...)
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  • Extramisionismo vs. Intramisionismo. Matices de una Controversia Científica.Carlos Alberto Cardona Suárez & Juliana Gutiérrez Valderrama - 2022 - Ideas Y Valores 71:13-40.
    En el artículo se examina la controversia entre extramisionismo e intramisionismo a propósito de la percepción visual. Se defiende que la evaluación del cierre de la controversia depende del explanandum que rastrea el filósofo/historiador en la reconstrucción que persigue. Si enfatizamos en los mecanismos causales, la controversia se cerró en favor del intramisionismo. Si enfatizamos en aspectos asociados con la intencionalidad o con la forma como ciertas afecciones mentales refieren a objetos externos, la controversia conduce a una conciliación entre intramisionismo (...)
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  • “A masterly though neglected work”, Boscovich’s treatise on conic sections.Alessandra Fiocca & Andrea Del Centina - 2018 - Archive for History of Exact Sciences 72 (4):453-495.
    In this paper, we describe the genesis of Boscovich’s Sectionum Conicarum Elementa and discuss the motivations which led him to write this work. Moreover, by analysing the structure of this treatise in some depth, we show how he developed the completely new idea of “eccentric circle” and derived the whole theory of conic sections by starting from it. 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 (...)
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  • Os fundamentos da óptica geométrica de Johannes Kepler.Claudemir Roque Tossato - 2007 - Scientiae Studia 5 (4):471-499.
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