Leery bedfellows: Newton and leibniz on the status of infinitesimals Chapters uri icon

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abstract

  • Thus, philosophical disputes over the Leibnizian science of bodies naturally involve questions about the nature of infinitesimals. The volume also includes newly discovered Leibnizian marginalia in the mathematical writings of Hobbes.

publication date

  • November 3, 2008