Dead Force, Infinitesimals, and the Mathematicization of Nature

In Ursula Goldenbaum & Douglas Jesseph, Infinitesimal Differences: Controversies between Leibniz and his Contemporaries. Berlin, New York: Walter de Gruyter. pp. 281-306 (2008)
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