Article ID: CBB000500499

The Work of Tschirnhaus, La Hire and Leibniz on Catacaustics and the Birth of the Envelopes of Lines in the 17th Century (2005)

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The aim of this paper is to examine the work of Tschirnhaus, La Hire and Leibniz on the theory of caustics, a subject whose history is closely linked to geometrical optics. The curves in question were examined by the most eminent mathematicians of the 17th century such as Huygens, Barrow and Newton and were subsequently studied analytically from the time of Tschirnhaus until the 19th century. Leibniz was interested in caustics and the subject probably inspired him in his discovery of the concept of envelopes of lines

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Authors & Contributors
Hecht, Hartmut
Primbault, Simon Dumas
Johns, Chris
Hatfield, Gary
Xambó Descamps, Sebastián
Sutherland, Daniel
Journals
Nuncius: Annali di Storia della Scienza
Historia Mathematica
Revue d'Histoire des Sciences
Quaderns d'Història de l'Enginyeria
NTM: Zeitschrift für Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Technik und Medizin
Journal of the History of Ideas
Publishers
Guida Editori
Springer
Oxford University Press
Librairie Philosophique J. Vrin
Akademie-Verlag
Concepts
Geometry
Mathematics
Optics
Calculus
Physics
Perspective
People
Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm von
Wolff, Christian von
Lambert, Johann Heinrich
Viviani, Vincenzo
Tschirnhaus, Ehrenfried Walther von
Taylor, Brook
Time Periods
17th century
18th century
16th century
15th century
Places
Germany
Europe
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