| Pioneer | Journal where reappraisal appeared | Title | Link to article containing reappraisal | ||||
| Gottfried Leibniz | Notices AMS | "Leibniz's laws of continuity and homogeneity" | 12e | ||||
| Gottfried Leibniz | Erkenntnis | "Leibniz's infinitesimals: Their fictionality, their modern implementations, and their foes from Berkeley to Russell and beyond" | 13f | ||||
| Gottfried Leibniz | Studia Leibnitiana | "Infinitesimals, imaginaries, ideals, and fictions" | 14c | ||||
| Gottfried Leibniz | HOPOS | "Leibniz versus Ishiguro: Closing a Quarter Century of Syncategoremania" | 16a | ||||
| Gottfried Leibniz | Mat. Stud.| "Leibniz's well-founded
fictions and their interpretations" | 18a |
Gottfried Leibniz | British Journal for the History of
Math | "Procedures of Leibnizian infinitesimal calculus: An
account in three modern frameworks" | 21a |
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Leibniz wrote in a 14/24 june 1695 letter to l'Hospital: "I use the
term incomparable magnitudes to refer to [magnitudes] of
which one multiplied by any finite number whatsoever, will be unable
to exceed the other, in the same way [adopted by] Euclid in the fifth
definition of the fifth book [of The Elements]." In modern
editions of The Elements, the definition of comparability
appears in Book V, Definition 4.
See also
Salvaging Leibniz
Fermat
Euler
Cauchy
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