5 ideas
22820 | Early Romantics sought a plurality of systems, in a quest for freedom [Hösle] |
18086 | Weierstrass eliminated talk of infinitesimals [Weierstrass, by Kitcher] |
18092 | Weierstrass made limits central, but the existence of limits still needed to be proved [Weierstrass, by Bostock] |
20653 | Six reduction levels: groups, lives, cells, molecules, atoms, particles [Putnam/Oppenheim, by Watson] |
22819 | In the 18th century history came to be seen as progressive, rather than cyclical [Hösle] |