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Vincenzo De Risi is currently Research Fellow at the French CNRS. He has previously been Research Director at the Max Planck Institute for The History of Science in Berlin (2010-2016), fellow of the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences in Leipzig and invited Leibniz-Professor in the latter city. He worked extensively on the history of geometry and geometrical epistemology from Antiquity to the Early Modern Age, and in particular on Leibniz’s analysis situs, and the discovery of non-Euclidean geometry. His main publications are Geometry and Monadology: Leibniz’s Analysis Situs and Philosophy of Space (2007), Leibniz on the Parallel Postulate and the Foundations of Geometry (2015), a commented edition and translation of Saccheri’s masterwork on non-Euclidean geometry ( Euclid vindicated from Every Blemish, 2014), and a collection of essays on geometry and space ( Mathematizing Space: The Objects of Geometry from Antiquity to the Early Modern Age, 2015), all published by Birkhäuser. He has recently published a long essay on the tradition of Euclid’s Elements ( The Development of Euclidean Axiomatics, “Archive for History of Exact Sciences”, 2016)




6 Ebooks tarafından Vincenzo De Risi

Gerolamo Saccheri: Euclid Vindicated from Every Blemish
This first complete English language edition of Euclides vindicatus presents a corrected and revised edition of the classical English translation of Saccheri’s text by G.B. Halsted. It is complemente …
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€96.29
Vincenzo De Risi: Mathematizing Space
This book collects the papers of the conference held in Berlin, Germany, 27-29 August 2012, on ‘Space, Geometry and the Imagination from Antiquity to the Modern Age’. The conference was a joint effor …
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€149.79
Vincenzo De Risi: Leibniz on the Parallel Postulate and the Foundations of Geometry
This book offers a general introduction to the geometrical studies of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716) and his mathematical epistemology. In particular, it focuses on his theory of parallel line …
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€90.94
Vincenzo de Risi: Geometry and Monadology
This book reconstructs, both from the historical and theoretical points of view, Leibniz’s geometrical studies, focusing in particular on the research Leibniz carried on in the last years of his life …
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€181.89
Vincenzo De Risi: Leibniz and the Structure of Sciences
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 …
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€139.09
Francesco Ademollo & Fabrizio Amerini: Thinking and Calculating
This volume collects 22 essays on the history of logic written by outstanding specialists in the field. The book was originally prompted by the 2018-2019 celebrations in honor of Massimo Mugnai, a wo …
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€149.79