In this chapter we provide translations of early texts by Leibniz on infinitesimals, including relevant extracts from the Accessio and from the Paris manuscripts, both philosophical and mathematical, as well as of a little known text from about 1679, Geometry with the Metaphysics of the Continuum Omitted, for which we also give the Latin transcription.

错误:搜索内容不能为空,请输入英文关键词
错误:关键词超出字数限制,请精简
高级检索

Texts for Chapter 2, The Question of the Existence of Infinitesimals (1669–1676)

  • Richard T. W. Arthur,
  • David Rabouin

摘要

In this chapter we provide translations of early texts by Leibniz on infinitesimals, including relevant extracts from the Accessio and from the Paris manuscripts, both philosophical and mathematical, as well as of a little known text from about 1679, Geometry with the Metaphysics of the Continuum Omitted, for which we also give the Latin transcription.