- In geometry, Cavalieri's principle, a
modern implementation of the
method of indivisibles,
named after Bonaventura Cavalieri, is as follows: 2-dimensional...
- work on the
problems of optics and motion, work on
indivisibles, the
precursors of infinitesimal calculus, and the
introduction of logarithms to Italy...
-
Tacquet adhered to the
methods of the
geometry of Euclid and the
philosophy of Aristotle and
opposed the
method of indivisibles. André
Tacquet was born...
-
librarian at the
Library of Alexandria, and
contains the
first attested explicit use
of indivisibles (
indivisibles are
geometric versions of infinitesimals)....
- Look up
indivisible in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Indivisible may
refer to:
Method of indivisibles, the
historical name
of what is now
known as Cavalieri's...
- came to be
known as the
method of indivisibles in his work The
Method of Mechanical Theorems to find
areas of regions and
volumes of solids. In his formal...
-
General of the
Jesuits led by
Bidermann banned the
method of indivisibles of Galileo and
Cavalieri from
being taught in the vast
network of Jesuit schools...
- Cavalieri's principle, also
termed the
method of indivisibles which eventually evolved into the
infinitesimal calculus of Roberval, Torricelli, Wallis, Leibniz...
- led by
father Jacob Bidermann banned teaching indivisibles in
their schools.: 17 Cavalieri's
indivisibles and
Galileo Galilei's
heliocentrism were systematically...
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comments on the
works of Bonaventura Cavalieri,
praising his
method of indivisibles. He
cites both the
objections to this
method used by
Mario Bettinus...
