Exercitationes geometricae sex. I. De priori methodo indiuisibilium. II. De posteriori methodo indiuisibilium. III. In Paulum Guldinum è Societate Iesu dicta indiuisibilia oppugnantem. IV. De vsu eorumdem ind. in potestatibus cossicis. V. De vsu dictorum ind. in vnif. diffor. grauibus. VI. De quibusdam propositionibus miscellaneis, quarum synopsim versa pagina ostendit.
Bologna: Giacomo Monti, 1647. First edition, rare, of Cavalieri’s second work on integration methods, a sequel to and elaboration of his Geometria indivisibilibus (1635), one of the most important forerunners of the integral calculus. Cavalieri’s ‘method of indivisibles’, considers an area as made up of an indefinite number of equidistant..... More
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