René Descartes Quote

We call infinite that thing whose limits we have not perceived, and so by that word we do not signify what we understand about a thing, but rather what we do not understand.


In: P Mancosu and E. Vailati, Torricelli's Infinitely Long Solid and Its Philosophical Reception in the, Seventeenth Century


We call infinite that thing whose limits we have not perceived, and so by that word we do not signify what we understand about a thing, but rather...

We call infinite that thing whose limits we have not perceived, and so by that word we do not signify what we understand about a thing, but rather...

We call infinite that thing whose limits we have not perceived, and so by that word we do not signify what we understand about a thing, but rather...

We call infinite that thing whose limits we have not perceived, and so by that word we do not signify what we understand about a thing, but rather...