Infinitesimal
eBook - ePub

Infinitesimal

  1. 368 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Infinitesimal

About this book

On August 10, 1632, five leading Jesuits convened in a sombre Roman palazzo to pass judgment on a simple idea: that a continuous line is composed of distinct and limitlessly tiny parts. The doctrine would become the foundation of calculus, but on that fateful day the judges ruled that it was forbidden. With the stroke of a pen they set off a war for the soul of the modern world.Amir Alexander takes us from the bloody religious strife of the sixteenth century to the battlefields of the English civil war and the fierce confrontations between leading thinkers like Galileo and Hobbes. The legitimacy of popes and kings, as well as our modern beliefs in human liberty and progressive science, hung in the balance; the answer hinged on the infinitesimal.Pulsing with drama and excitement, Infinitesimal will forever change the way you look at a simple line.

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Information

Publisher
Oneworld Publications
Year
2014
eBook ISBN
9781780745336
Topic
History
Subtopic
Science History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Introduction
  6. Part I: The War Against Disorder: The Jesuits Against the Infinitely Small
  7. Part II: Leviathan and the Infinitesimal
  8. Epilogue: Two Modernities
  9. Dramatis Personae
  10. Time Line
  11. Notes
  12. Acknowledgments
  13. Index

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