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Author
Publisher
Oneworld
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
On August 10th, 1632, five leading Jesuits convened in a sombre Roman palazzo to pass judgement on a simple idea: that a continuous line is composed of distinct and limitlessly tiny parts. The doctrine would become the foundation of calculus, but on that fateful day the judges ruled that it was forbidden. With the stroke of a pen they set off a war for the soul of the modern world. Amir Alexander tells the story of the struggle that pitted Europe's...
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