Descartes and the use of indivisibles

DOI10.1007/978-3-319-00131-9_8zbMATH Open1329.01025OpenAlexW863729048MaRDI QIDQ2950503FDOQ2950503

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

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zbMATH Keywords

floating bodiesindivisiblesDescartesZeno's paradoxRobervalquadrature of the cycloid

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

Cites Work

• Natural philosophy and geometry in the 17th century
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• Newton on Indivisibles
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