The best of all possible books?: Raffaele Pisano, Michel Fichant, Paolo Bussotti, Agamenon R. E. Oliveira (eds.): The dialogue between sciences, philosophy, and engineering. New historical and epistemological insights. Homage to Gottfried W. Leibniz 1646–1716. With a foreword by Eberhard Knobloch. London: College Publications, 2017, xxii + 414pp, £20.58 PB

Autor: Esquisabel, Oscar M.
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Zdroj: Metascience; Jul2020, Vol. 29 Issue 2, p257-261, 5p
Abstrakt: Thus, Leibniz's concept of absolute motion results from the confluence of two different theoretical outputs: the equivalence principle is valid for the phenomenal level, while the principle of equipollence belongs to a deeper, dynamic level, whose function is to determine the invariant laws that are given at the phenomenal level. Davide Crippa's chapter "Leibniz and the impossibility of squaring the circle" (93-120) opens the section on mathematics with an accurate analysis of Leibniz's proof of the impossibility of squaring the circle (Proposition LI of I De Quadratura Arithmetica Circuli i , DQAC). Crippa examines the proof of impossibility proposed by Gregory in 1667, a proof that Leibniz was aware of in 1673, as well as the dispute between Leibniz and Huygens. [Extracted from the article]
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