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

DOI10.1086/355637zbMATH Open0727.01006OpenAlexW2069251457WikidataQ56168861 ScholiaQ56168861MaRDI QIDQ3348868FDOQ3348868

Authors: Paolo Mancosu, Ezio Vailati 

Publication date: 1991

Published in: Isis (Search for Journal in Brave)

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

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zbMATH Keywords

infinityIsaac BarrowPierre Gassendigeometrical entitiesThomas HobbesTorricelli's solid

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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