Neither ancient nor modern: Wallis and Barrow on the composition of continua. Part two: The seventeenth-century context: The struggle between ancient and modern

DOI10.1098/RSNR.1997.0002zbMATH Open0873.01014OpenAlexW2100379269MaRDI QIDQ3122889FDOQ3122889

Authors: Katherine Hill 

Publication date: 5 October 1997

Published in: Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1098/rsnr.1997.0002

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zbMATH Keywords

applicabilityancients and modernseducational reformJohn DurieJoseph Glanwillmathematical stylestradition and innovation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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