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... Leibniz in London , " in Sitzungsberichte der Königlich Preussischen Academie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin , Februar , 1891 . 41. DE MORGAN , A. Articles " Fluxions " and " Commercium Epistoli- cum , " in the Penny Cyclopædia . 42 ...
... Leibniz in London , " in Sitzungsberichte der Königlich Preussischen Academie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin , Februar , 1891 . 41. DE MORGAN , A. Articles " Fluxions " and " Commercium Epistoli- cum , " in the Penny Cyclopædia . 42 ...
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... Leibniz . Up to the seventeenth century , mathematics was cultivated but little in Great Britain . During the sixteenth century , she brought forth no mathematician comparable with Vieta , Stifel , or Tartaglia . But with the time of ...
... Leibniz . Up to the seventeenth century , mathematics was cultivated but little in Great Britain . During the sixteenth century , she brought forth no mathematician comparable with Vieta , Stifel , or Tartaglia . But with the time of ...
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... Leibniz . He considers lines as composed of an infinite number of points , surfaces as com- posed of an infinite number of lines , and solids of an infinite number of planes . The relative magnitude of two solids or surfaces could then ...
... Leibniz . He considers lines as composed of an infinite number of points , surfaces as com- posed of an infinite number of lines , and solids of an infinite number of planes . The relative magnitude of two solids or surfaces could then ...
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... Leibniz saw it in Paris and reported on a portion of its contents . The precocious youth made vast progress in all the sciences , but the constant application at so tender an age greatly impaired his health . Yet he continued working ...
... Leibniz saw it in Paris and reported on a portion of its contents . The precocious youth made vast progress in all the sciences , but the constant application at so tender an age greatly impaired his health . Yet he continued working ...
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... Leibniz , one of the greatest geniuses of modern times . There are certain focal points in history toward which the lines of past progress converge , and from which radiate the advances of the future . Such was the age of Newton and Leibniz ...
... Leibniz , one of the greatest geniuses of modern times . There are certain focal points in history toward which the lines of past progress converge , and from which radiate the advances of the future . Such was the age of Newton and Leibniz ...
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