Book ID: CBB000078085

Reasoning with the infinite: From the closed world to the mathematical universe. Translated by M.B. DeBevoise (1998)

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Blay, Michel (Author)


University of Chicago Press


Publication Date: 1998
Physical Details: x + 216 pp.; illus.; notes; bibl.; index

Description Contents: 1: Infinity eliminated, or, Huygens's theory of the motion of heavy bodies. 2: First and last ratios in the Newtonian theory of central forces. 3: The science of motion in the workshops of infinity. 4: Motion algorithmized. Epilogue: Fontenelle and the reasons of infinity.


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Authors & Contributors
Vilain, Christiane
Erlichson, Herman
Ducheyne, Steffen
Speiser, David
Snelders, Henricus Adrianus Marie
Slowik, Edward S.
Concepts
Mechanics
Physics
Gravitation
Clocks and Watches
Infinity
Mathematical analysis
Time Periods
17th century
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