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Publisher: Birkhäuser

Place: Basel

Year: 2016

Series: Science Networks

ISBN (Hardback): 9783319198620

Full citation:

Vincenzo Risi, Vincenzo De Risi, Leibniz on the parallel postulate and the foundations of geometry, Basel, Birkhäuser, 2016

Leibniz on the parallel postulate and the foundations of geometry

Vincenzo RisiVincenzo De Risi

Contents

Introduction

3-6

The theory of parallel lines in the age of Leibniz

7-19

Leibniz' epistemology of geometry and the parallel postulate

21-56

Leibniz' attempts to prove the parallel postulate

57-102

Reception and legacy

103-121

Leibniz' texts on parallel lines

124-179