Interesting. He did early work in differential calculus. Didn't know that.
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Yeah, I had gotten the idea that Newton and Leibnitz somehow consed it out of thin air, but the air was already dense with special cases,
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That chain continues running through Viviani & Galileo.
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Cool. Reinforces the point that your mentor's ideas have a huge significance on what you will discover, when you start with academic work
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I.e. I can trace my "scientific lineage" to early East Germany. There is probably something also even earlier, but not easy to find.
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Is it Isaac's all the way down too?
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