Exactness in Leibniz’s mathematics: instruments to construct transcendent al curves

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Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.4171/OWR/2017/58" target="_blank" >10.4171/OWR/2017/58</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Exactness in Leibniz’s mathematics: instruments to construct transcendent al curves

Original language description

In this article, I shall survey Leibniz’s earliest attempts to construct curves beyond Descartes’ Geometry. Descartes’ demarcation between geometrical and mechanical curves, based primarily on a motion-criterion, is refused by Leibniz. In fact, against Descartes’ claim that mechanical curves are not geometrical because generated by two independent motions, Leibniz opposed the possibility of generating them by one motion only, using a flexible string.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

D - Article in proceedings

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60301 - Philosophy, History and Philosophy of science and technology

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2017

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Article name in the collection

Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach: Report No. 58/2017

ISBN

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ISSN

1660-8933

e-ISSN

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Number of pages

4

Pages from-to

44-47

Publisher name

European Mathematical Society

Place of publication

Zürich

Event location

Oberwolfach

Event date

Dec 17, 2017

Type of event by nationality

EUR - Evropská akce

UT code for WoS article

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