Timeline for Did Leibniz design a machine capable of solving algebraic equations?
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| Aug 19 at 19:07 | comment | added | paul garrett | @user2554, yes, as you notice, to be able to look at history of math and science (among other things), being able to (at least at a rudimentary level) French, German, maybe Italian, seems necessary. And, even relatively recently, "in my youth", it was truly necessary to be able to read mathematical French and German. Russian was sometimes translated. | |
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| Jun 4, 2016 at 16:57 | comment | added | user2554 | Thanks you very much. The machine isn't similar to what i imagined (i imagined an enourmous machine with huge number of gears), so i guess it's probably more ingenius. It's regretable that so little of leibniz's technical writings were translated to english - they might have an extraordinary positive impact on people who want to trace back technological ideas and understand, for example, the history of mechanical computers. | |
| Jun 4, 2016 at 16:18 | comment | added | Mauro ALLEGRANZA | @user2554 - I've added the link to the Planche in the Suppl (1777) to the Encyclopédie, illustrating the Constructeur Universel d'Equations. | |
| Jun 4, 2016 at 16:16 | history | edited | Mauro ALLEGRANZA | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jun 4, 2016 at 16:02 | comment | added | user2554 | So certainly Leibniz did design such a machine. That's already an advance (before your answer i wasn't sure if the statement in the book is correct). I'm unable to read the references you gave since i dont know german or french, so i'll ask only if you have a reference in english or at least a drawing of the machine. | |
| Jun 3, 2016 at 20:45 | history | answered | Mauro ALLEGRANZA | CC BY-SA 3.0 |