The work of Tschirnhaus, La Hire and Leibniz on catacaustics and the birth of the envelopes of lines in the 17th century

DOI10.1007/s00407-004-0092-7zbMath1076.01016OpenAlexW2074993285WikidataQ123189815 ScholiaQ123189815MaRDI QIDQ1770084

Giovanni Mingari Scarpello, Aldo Scimone

Publication date: 8 April 2005

Published in: Archive for History of Exact Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00407-004-0092-7

zbMATH Keywords

envelopesLeibnizTschirnhauscatacausticscaustic curvesLa Hire

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 17th century (01A45) History of optics and electromagnetic theory (78-03) History of real functions (26-03) Geometric optics (78A05)

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Computing envelopes in dynamic geometry environments ⋮ Unnamed Item ⋮ The rectification of quadratures as a central foundational problem for the early Leibnizian calculus ⋮ An unpublished memoir by Lagrange on the successive expansion of curves

Cites Work

• E. W. von Tschirnhaus: His role in early calculus and his work and impact on algebra
• Kinematic optics: A study of the wave theory of light in the seventeenth century

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