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Plenums

Peg Rawes

pp. 91-120

Abstrakt

In Leibniz, we find a philosopher whose writings reveal an especially intensive examination of geometry in relation to the principles of division and infinity. In addition, Leibniz's mathematical theory of geometry, Calculus, is evidence of how he reconfigures principles of quantity into a continuum of differential magnitudes or figures. This chapter suggests that, alongside these analytical mathematical geometric figures, Leibniz also develops an aesthetic geometric method and figures, which are infinitely divisible and embody a qualitative notion of magnitude.

Publication details

Published in:

Rawes Peg (2008) Space, geometry and aesthetics: through Kant and towards Deleuze. Dordrecht, Springer.

Seiten: 91-120

DOI: 10.1057/9780230583610_5

Referenz:

Rawes Peg (2008) Plenums, In: Space, geometry and aesthetics, Dordrecht, Springer, 91–120.