Exercitationes Geometricae Sex I De Priori Methodo Indiuisibilium Ii De Posteriori Methodo
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First edition
Bologna: Giacomo Monti, 1647. First edition, scarce, of Cavalieri’s second work on indivisibles, the sequel to and elaboration of his Geometria indivisibilibus 1635 , one of the most important forerunners of the integral calculus. The Geometria had set out the method; the Exercitationes defends it against Paul Guldin, restates it in the clearer form that the later seventeenth century adopted, and
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