Descartes and the use of indivisibles

DOI10.1007/978-3-319-00131-9_8MaRDI QIDQ2950503zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Vincent Jullien

Publication date 9 October 2015

Published in Seventeenth-Century Indivisibles Revisited (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-00131-9_8

zbMATH Keywords

floating bodiesindivisiblesDescartesZeno's paradoxRobervalquadrature of the cycloid

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 17th century (01A45)

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