Article ID: CBB001220639

Le Calcul Logique de Roberval (2011)

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Jullien, Vincent (Author)


Almagest
Volume: 2, no. 2
Issue: 2
Pages: 28-61

Roberval worked on his Elements of geometry for several years. The treatise was almost finished when, in 1675, the author died. In my paper, I intend to discuss the first book of Roberval's treatise insisting on the foundational ideas on which it is based. He deals with the "principles and axioms", and wants to give demonstrations for many propositions generally accepted without demonstrations. The fundamental themes are the logical relations of equality and inequality and the relations between a whole and its parts. They are treated in 6 definitions, 4 axioms, 2 postulates and finally in the 30 theorems of this first book.

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Authors & Contributors
Lützen, Jesper
Del Centina, Andrea
Romiti, Andrew Joseph
Lorenat, Jemma
Wreede, Liesbeth C. de
Vitrac, Bernard
Concepts
Mathematics
Geometry
Proof
Astronomy
Diagrams
Visual representation; visual communication
Time Periods
17th century
19th century
18th century
Ancient
Renaissance
20th century
Places
Greece
Netherlands
Italy
China
Ottoman Empire
Paris (France)
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