Six Geometrical Exercises (Exercitationes Geometricae Sex)
Exercitationes Geometricae Sex
Latin
1647
568 pages
First Translation
No prior complete English translation of this text has been found.
Extensive searches across multiple scholarly and library catalogs (including local catalogs, Google Books, and Internet Archive) yielded no evidence of an English translation of Bonaventura Cavalieri's 'Exercitationes Geometricae Sex' (1647). While the work is frequently cited in histories of mathematics (such as C.H. Edwards' 'The Historical Development of the Calculus'), no complete or partial English translation appears to exist.
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Bonaventura Cavalieri turns geometry into a study of infinite accumulation. By treating solids as stacks of planes and planes as weaves of lines, he anticipates the calculus and defies his traditionalist critics.
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