Barrow, Wallis, and the Remaking of Seventeenth Century Indivisibles

DOI10.1111/J.1600-0498.1997.TB00025.XzbMATH Open0876.01023OpenAlexW2087299267MaRDI QIDQ5284777FDOQ5284777

Authors: Antoni Malet 

Publication date: 12 March 1997

Published in: Centaurus (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1600-0498.1997.tb00025.x

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zbMATH Keywords

infinitesimalindivisiblesJohn WallisIsaac Barrowprehistory of calculus

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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• Controversy and modernity. John Wallis and the seventeenth-century debate on the nature of the angle of contact
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• The introduction of actual infinity in modern science: mathematics and physics in both Cavalieri and Torricelli
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• Infinitesimals in the foundations of Newton's mechanics

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