Torricelli's Infinitely Long Solid and Its Philosophical Reception in the Seventeenth Century

DOI10.1086/355637zbMath0727.01006OpenAlexW2069251457WikidataQ56168861 ScholiaQ56168861MaRDI QIDQ3348868

Ezio Vailati, Paolo Mancosu

Publication date: 1991

Published in: Isis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1086/355637

zbMATH Keywords

Thomas HobbesinfinityIsaac BarrowPierre Gassendigeometrical entitiesTorricelli's solid

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Philosophy of mathematics (00A30) History of mathematics in the 17th century (01A45)

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