Critical Notes — Chapter XLVI: Descriptive Geometry (§§ 374–387)

Primary Text: Read Verbatim Treatise Track (pp. 393–403) · Overview: Analytical Summary · Cross-Corpus Loci: Master Concordance

Historical & Cross-Corpus Commentary

Relation to Hilbert’s Axiom Group II (1899)

Russell compares Peano’s axioms with David Hilbert’s Grundlagen der Geometrie Group II (Axiome der Anordnung), noting that Peano’s symbolic rigor anticipated Hilbert’s planar separation postulates by a decade.