On Leibniz’s theorem about the impossibility of squaring the circle and its relation with James Gregory’s Vera Circuli Quadratura

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Crippa, Davide
On Leibniz’s theorem about the impossibility of squaring the circle and its relation with James Gregory’s Vera Circuli Quadratura.
Quaderns d’Historia de l’Ingenyeria. -, č. 16 (2018), s. 209-232. E-ISSN 1885-4516
Institucionální podpora: RVO:67985955
Klíčová slova: James Gregory * impossibility * infinitesimal analysis * Leibniz * quadrature of the circle
Obor OECD: Philosophy, History and Philosophy of science and technology
https://upcommons.upc.edu/handle/2117/118726

This paper deals with Leibniz’s theorem about the impossibility of squaring the central conic sections, proven in his unpublished, long essay “De Quadratura arithmetica...”.Thanks to new manuscript sources, I will show the deep links between Leibniz’s theorem and a similar theorem proven by James Gregory in 1667.
Trvalý link: http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0292454