Geometry and Politics: Mathematics in the Thought of Thomas Hobbes

DOI10.2307/2691132zbMATH Open0715.01037OpenAlexW4251521307MaRDI QIDQ3201034FDOQ3201034

Authors: Hardy Grant 

Publication date: 1990

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.2307/2691132

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zbMATH Keywords

analysisDescartesGalileiPappussynthesis. Newton

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 17th century (01A45) Philosophy of mathematics (00A30) Sociology (and profession) of mathematics (01A80)

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