- 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...
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Bonaventura Cavalieri's
method of indivisibles led to an
extension of the
results of the
classical authors. The
method of indivisibles related to geometrical...
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librarian at the
Library of Alexandria, and
contains the
first attested explicit use
of indivisibles (
indivisibles are
geometric versions of infinitesimals)....
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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...
- Cavalieri's principle, also
termed the
method of indivisibles which eventually evolved into the
infinitesimal calculus of Roberval, Torricelli, Wallis, Leibniz...
-
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...
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Memoirs of the
Royal Academy, 1693,
observes that the
method of transforming figures,
explained at the
latter end
of Roberval's
Treatise of Indivisibles, was...
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calculation of area by any
method. Most
often the
method of indivisibles was used; it was less
rigorous than the
geometric constructions of the Gr****s...
- that the
method was
formalized by
Cavalieri as the
method of Indivisibles and
eventually incorporated by
Newton into a
general framework of integral calculus...