My Chapter Upon Lines: Motion, Deviation, and Lineation in Eighteenth-Century British Aesthetics.
This essay argues that the eighteenth-century emergence of algebraic and arithmetic methods that require only numeric operators and that do not base their claims to truth upon Euclidean axiomatic geometric magnitudes and relations (lines, angles, proportions) transformed the ontological status of li...
| Published in: | Criticism Vol. 61; no. 1; pp. 1 - 27 |
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Wayne State University Press
Winter2019
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