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geometor.bertrand_russell establishes a verified, public-domain digital critical edition of Bertrand Russell’s two foundational Cambridge treatises on geometry—An Essay on the Foundations of Geometry (1897) and The Principles of Mathematics (1903, First Edition: Preface, Part I Ch. I, and Part VI Space).

Within the GEOMETOR ecosystem, Russell’s treatises serve as the primary logicist and metageometrical interlocutor for three sister projects:

1. Epistemology of Geometry (`geometor/hoenen`): Providing the exact 1903 pages (pp. 404–407, §§ 389–391) and surrounding relational continuum chapters answered point-by-point by Fr. Petrus Hoenen, S.J. in De Noetica Geometriae (1954), Caput III–V.

2. Classical Euclidean Foundations (`geometor/euclid` & `geometor/elements`): Supplying the full context for Sir Thomas L. Heath’s engagement with Russell’s critique of circle intersection in I.1, triangle superposition in I.4, and implicit order axioms in I.6, I.7, and I.16.

3. Synthetic Projective Geometry (`geometor/pappus`): Tracing the modern axiomatization of Pappus of Alexandria’s cross-ratio invariance and Karl Georg Christian von Staudt’s quadrilateral construction from Russell’s 1897 circularity critique to his 1903 Pieri-inspired deductive synthesis.