Continuous extension and indivisibles in Galileo

DOI10.1093/OSO/9780198809647.003.0005MaRDI QIDQ5149696zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Samuel Levey

Publication date 12 February 2021

Published in The History of Continua (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198809647.003.0005

zbMATH Keywords

continuityparadoxmotioninfinitycontinuous extensionindivisible

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 17th century (01A45) Philosophy of mathematics (00A30) History of mathematical logic and foundations (03-03) History of real functions (26-03) History of mathematics in the 15th and 16th centuries, Renaissance (01A40)

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