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Exactness in Leibniz’s mathematics: instruments to construct transcendent al curves

SYSNO ASEP	0493326
Document Type	C - Proceedings Paper (int. conf.)
R&D Document Type	Conference Paper
Title	Exactness in Leibniz’s mathematics: instruments to construct transcendent al curves
Author(s)	Crippa, Davide (FLU-F)_{ORCID, RID, SAI}
Source Title	Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach: Report No. 58/2017. - Zürich : European Mathematical Society, 2017 - ISSN 1660-8933
Pages	s. 44-47
Number of pages	4 s.
Publication form	Print - P
Action	Mathematical Instruments between Material Artifacts and Ideal Machines: Their Scientific and Social Role before 1950
Event date	17.12.2017 - 23.12.2017
VEvent location	Oberwolfach
Country	DE - Germany
Event type	EUR
Language	eng - English
Country	CH - Switzerland
Keywords	geometrical constructions ; motion ; Leibniz ; strings ; transcendental curves
Subject RIV	AA - Philosophy ; Religion
OECD category	Philosophy, History and Philosophy of science and technology
Institutional support	FLU-F - RVO:67985955
DOI	10.4171/OWR/2017/58
Annotation	In this article, I shall survey Leibniz’s earliest attempts to construct curves beyond Descartes’ Geometry. Descartes’ demarcation between geometrical and mechanical curves, based primarily on a motion-criterion, is refused by Leibniz. In fact, against Descartes’ claim that mechanical curves are not geometrical because generated by two independent motions, Leibniz opposed the possibility of generating them by one motion only, using a flexible string.
Workplace	Institute of Philosophy
Contact	Chlumská Simona, chlumska@flu.cas.cz ; Tichá Zuzana, asep@flu.cas.cz Tel: 221 183 360
Year of Publishing	2019

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