Leibniz and the Structure of Sciences: modern perspectives on the history of logic, mathematics, epistemology

0519429 - FLÚ 2020 RIV DE eng M - Monography Chapter
Crippa, Davide
One String Attached: Geometrical Exactness in Leibniz’s Parisian Manuscripts.
Leibniz and the Structure of Sciences: modern perspectives on the history of logic, mathematics, epistemology. Heidelberg: Springer, 2019 - (De Risi, V.), s. 203-252. Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science, 337. ISBN 978-3-030-25571-8
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Keywords : Leibniz * Descartes * curves * geometry * construction * exactness * cycloid
OECD category: History (history of science and technology to be 6.3, history of specific sciences to be under the respective headings)

In this paper, I shall discuss Leibniz’s considerations on the problem of exactness, as they can be reconstructed from published and unpublished letters, notes, drafts and sketches he did while Paris between 1673 and 1676. Leibniz’s critical target was Descartes’ Géométrie (1637). Descartes had managed to include into geometry all algebraic curves on the ground that they can be constructed by one continuous motions.
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