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Philosophers at War; The quarrel between Newton and Leibniz.

HALL, A. Rupert.

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8vo. xiii, 338 pp. Index. Cloth, dust-jacket; jacket worn. Ownership ink signature of David C. Lindberg. Very good. First edition. "Hall accounts for the ingredients of the famous controversy abou...

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8vo. xiii, 338 pp. Index. Cloth, dust-jacket; jacket worn. Ownership ink signature of David C. Lindberg. Very good. First edition. "Hall accounts for the ingredients of the famous controversy about the priority of the creation of the calculus; and in non-technical language he describes the difference between Newton's and Leibniz's approaches to the calculus. Further, Hall discusses earlier writings about the quarrel and reaches very sensible conclusions" Joseph Dauben, History of Mathematics from Antiquity to the Present, no. 831. ISBN: 0521227321 / 0-521-22732-1 First Edition.

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ISBN: 0521227321
ISBN-13: 9780521227322
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, (1980).
Year: 1980
Type: Used
Binding: Softcover

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