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Antonio Nardi (?–1656) was a friend of Torricelli and, like him, a pupil of Benedetto Castelli in Rome. It was shown that the thought of Torricelli on indivisibles owed much to Nardi.
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Belloni (1987, pp. 29–38).
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There is a copy, written by Torricelli, in the National Library of Firenze, Codice Galileiano, 130.
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See Belloni, p. 31, n. 3.
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See, for example, Heath (1981, pp. 25–29).
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Knobloch (2000, pp. 82–100).
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Knobloch (2000, pp. 83–84).
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Heath (1981, vol. II).
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The Letter to Dositheus is the preface of this treatise.
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Jullien, V. (2015). Archimedes and Indivisibles. In: Jullien, V. (eds) Seventeenth-Century Indivisibles Revisited. Science Networks. Historical Studies, vol 49. Birkhäuser, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-00131-9_18
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