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3 | (4) |
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2 The Theory of Parallel Lines in the Age of Leibniz |
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7 | (14) |
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2.1 From Antiquity to the Renaissance |
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7 | (4) |
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2.2 Jesuit and French Attempts in the Seventeenth Century |
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11 | (3) |
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2.3 Italian and British Attempts in the Seventeenth Century |
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14 | (7) |
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3 Leibniz' Epistemology of Geometry and the Parallel Postulate |
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21 | (36) |
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21 | (10) |
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3.2 Leibniz' Theory of Definition |
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31 | (9) |
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3.3 Geometry as the Science of Space |
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40 | (9) |
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3.4 Philosophy and the Parallel Postulate |
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49 | (8) |
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4 Leibniz' Attempts to Prove the Parallel Postulate |
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57 | (46) |
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4.1 Preliminary Definitions |
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57 | (8) |
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4.2 Leibniz' Youth and the Parisian Years (Texts 1--4) |
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65 | (5) |
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4.3 The First Studies on the Parallel Postulate: 1677--1689 (Texts 5--16) |
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70 | (10) |
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4.4 Leibniz' Studies in the 1690s (Texts 17--29 and 34) |
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80 | (11) |
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4.5 Leibniz' Late Studies (Texts 30--39) |
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91 | (12) |
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103 | (22) |
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5.1 Toward a Geometry of Space in the Eighteenth Century |
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103 | (2) |
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5.2 Wolff, Kastner and the Early Reactions |
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105 | (4) |
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5.3 The Concept of Lage, Direction, and the Actual Infinite |
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109 | (6) |
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5.4 The Principle of Reason |
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115 | (10) |
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6 Leibniz' Texts on Parallel Lines |
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125 | (56) |
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6.1 From Characteristica geometrica. Reading Notes to Fabri's "Synopsis geometrica" (1673) |
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125 | (1) |
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6.2 From De secandis parallelis (1676) |
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125 | (2) |
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6.3 From Linea infinita & extensio interminata (January--April 1676) |
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127 | (2) |
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6.4 From Dissertationis de arithmetica circuit quadratura propositiones septem and Quadraturae circuli arithmetica pars prima (April--June 1676) |
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129 | (1) |
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6.5 From Leibniz' Marginal Notes to Barrow's Edition of Euclid (1676-1677) |
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129 | (1) |
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6.6 From Characteristica geometrica (January 1677) |
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129 | (1) |
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6.7 From Characteristica geometrica, Scheda 1 (1679) |
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129 | (2) |
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6.8 From Linea est via puncti ... (1679) |
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131 | (1) |
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6.9 Axioma 13 Euclidis ... (Around 1679) |
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131 | (2) |
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6.10 From De calculo algebraico et constructiones lineares optime conciliandis (January 1680) |
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133 | (2) |
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6.11 From Elementa nova matheseos universalis (Summer 1683) |
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135 | (2) |
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6.12 From Definitiones (1685) |
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137 | (2) |
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6.13 From Si linea recta moveatur (1685) |
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139 | (1) |
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6.14 From De curvis similibus et similiter positis et parallelis (1685) |
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139 | (2) |
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6.15 From Logica de notionibus. Annotata circa schedas Jungianas (1685) |
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141 | (2) |
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6.16 From Phoranomus (1689) |
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143 | (1) |
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6.17 From Demonstrationes Euclideas (Around 1690) |
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143 | (1) |
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143 | (2) |
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6.19 From Generalia de natura linearum (Acta eruditorum, September 1692) |
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145 | (1) |
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6.20 Rectae parallelae (around 1692) |
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145 | (2) |
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6.21 From Lineam specie datam describere (Around 1693) |
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147 | (1) |
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6.22 From Leibniz' Notes to Arnauld's Nouveaux elemens de geometrie (Around 1693) |
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147 | (6) |
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6.23 From Elementa geometriae generalia (Around 1694) |
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153 | (1) |
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6.24 From De novo usu centri gravitatis (Acta eruditorum, November 1695) |
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153 | (1) |
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6.25 From Expediendi Laboris causa... (Around 1695) |
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153 | (2) |
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6.26 From Duae rectae parallelae... (1695) |
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155 | (2) |
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6.27 Leibniz to Johann Bernoulli (January 29th/February 8th, 1697) |
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157 | (2) |
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6.28 From Specimen analyseos anagogicae (1698) |
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159 | (1) |
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6.29 From Justification du Calcul des infinitesimales par celuy de l'Algebre ordinaire (1702) |
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159 | (1) |
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6.30 From Attentius examinans ... (Around 1702) |
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159 | (2) |
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6.31 From Calculum situs (Around 1702) |
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161 | (4) |
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6.32 From Table de definitions (1702--1704) |
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165 | (1) |
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6.33 From Nouveaux Essais sur l'entendement humain, II, xxxi, § 3; and III, iii, § 18 (1703--1705) |
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165 | (2) |
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6.34 From De lineae super linea incessu (Acta eruditorum, January 1706), and Letter to Johann Bernoulli (July 15th, 1706) |
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167 | (1) |
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6.35 From Demonstratio omnimoda (1712) |
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167 | (2) |
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6.36 From In Euclidis πρωτα (1712) |
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169 | (10) |
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6.37 From Spatium absolutum (August--September 1714) |
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179 | (1) |
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6.38 From Rectam definio ... (1715) |
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179 | (1) |
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6.39 From Calculi situs fundamenta (1745) |
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179 | (2) |
Bibliography |
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181 | (10) |
Index of Names |
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