Leibniz and the Structure of Sciences: Modern Perspectives on the History of Logic, Mathematics, Epistemology by Vincenzo De RisiEnglish | PDF,EPUB | 2019 | 304 Pages | ISBN : 3030255719 | 7.6 MB
The book offers a collection of essays on various aspects of Leibniz’s scientific thought, written by historians of science and world-leading experts on Leibniz. The essays deal with a vast array of topics on the exact sciences: Leibniz’s logic, mereology, the notion of infinity and cardinality, the foundations of geometry, the theory of curves and differential geometry, and finally dynamics and general epistemology. Several chapters attempt a reading of Leibniz’s scientific works through modern mathematical tools, and compare Leibniz’s results in these fields with 19th- and 20th-Century conceptions of them.