Geometria indivisibilibus continuorum nova quadam ratione promota.
Bologna: Clemente Ferroni, 1635. First edition, exceptionally rare, of this landmark work in the history of mathematics, containing the discovery of the ‘method of indivisibles’, the most important intermediate step between the Archimedean ‘method of exhaustion’ and the integral calculus of Newton and Leibniz. This method is embodied in ‘Cavalieri's..... More
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