This chapter deals with the issues connected to the method Cusanus applies in his mathematical texts. It shows what, according to Cusanus, Archimedes’ error is, and how the “archification” method leads to the coincidence of opposites (curved/straight).

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Archification Method and Coincidentia Oppositorum

  • Federica De Felice

摘要

This chapter deals with the issues connected to the method Cusanus applies in his mathematical texts. It shows what, according to Cusanus, Archimedes’ error is, and how the “archification” method leads to the coincidence of opposites (curved/straight).