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Author:   Vincent Jullien
Publisher:   Birkhauser Verlag AG
Imprint:   Birkhauser Verlag AG
Edition:   2015 ed.
Volume:   49
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.90cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   8.808kg
ISBN:  

9783319001302

ISBN 10:   3319001302
Pages:   499
Publication Date:   02 June 2015
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction.- 1 From Aristotle to the Classical Age : the Debate around Indivibilism.- 2 Cavalieri’s Indivisibles.- 3 Kepler, Cavalieri, Guldin.- 4 Indivisibles in the Work of Galileo.- 5 Torricelli’s indivisibles.- 6 The method of indivisibles that Gregory of Saint Vincent could have used for his own quadrature of Hyperbola.- 7 Descartes and the use of indivisibles.- 8 Roberval’s indivisibles.- 9 Pascal’s indivisibles.- 10 Two jesuits against indivibles, Lalouvère and Tacquet.- 11 Isaac Barrow’s indivisibles.- 12 The role of indivisibles in Mengoli´s quadratures.- 13 Wallis on indivisibles.- 14 Leibniz’s rigorous foundations of the method of indivisibles.- 15 Newton on indivisibles.-16 An epistemological route in the historiography on indivisibles.- 17 Archimedes and indivisibles.- 18 Indivisibles and Latitude of Forms.- 19 How to explain the use of the term indivisibles as late as 1700 for the discovery of multiple rainbows?​

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This book, which contains contributions by twelve historians of mathematics, provides a fascinating insight into the background and the rise of new ways of handling indivisibles in the 17th century. ... The editor, Vincent Jullien, has given the book a unity that is praiseworthy and (almost) indivisible. (William R. Shea, Mathematical Reviews, May, 2016)

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