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Leery bedfellows: Newton and leibniz on the status of infinitesimals

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.

Authors

Arthur R

Book title

Infinitesimal Differences Controversies between Leibniz and his Contemporaries

Publisher

Walter de Gruyter

Publication Date

November 3, 2008

ISBN-10

3110211866

ISBN-13

9783110211863

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