Seventeenth-century indivisibles revisited. ([2015])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Vincent Jullien, editor.
• Editors: Jullien, Vincent
• Contents: Introduction -- 1 From Aristotle to the Classical Age : the Debate around Indivibilism -- 2 Cavalieri's Indivisibles -- 3 Kepler, Cavalieri, Guldin -- 4 Indivisibles in the Work of Galileo -- 5 Torricelli's indivisibles -- 6 The method of indivisibles that Gregory of Saint Vincent could have used for his own quadrature of Hyperbola -- 7 Descartes and the use of indivisibles -- 8 Roberval?s indivisibles -- 9 Pascal's indivisibles -- 10 Two jesuits against indivibles, Lalouvère and Tacquet -- 11 Isaac Barrow?s indivisibles -- 12 The role of indivisibles in Mengoli ́s quadratures -- 13 Wallis on indivisibles -- 14 Leibniz's rigorous foundations of the method of indivisibles -- 15 Newton on indivisibles.-16 An epistemological route in the historiography on indivisibles -- 17 Archimedes and indivisibles -- 18 Indivisibles and Latitude of Forms -- 19 How to explain the use of the term indivisibles as late as 1700 for the discovery of multiple rainbows?
• Publisher Details: Cham : Birkhäuser
• Publication Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations
• Subjects: 516.3/6; Geometry, Infinitesimal; Geometry -- Early works to 1800; MATHEMATICS -- Geometry -- Differential; Geometry; Geometry, Infinitesimal; Electronic books; Early works
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319001319; 3319001310; 3319001302; 9783319001302
• Related ISBNs: 9783319001302
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (Ebsco, viewed May 29, 2015).
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