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Desargues and Leibniz: In the Black Box ‐ A Mathematical Model of the Leibnizian Monad
Author(s) -
Cache Bernard
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
architectural design
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.128
H-Index - 22
eISSN - 1554-2769
pISSN - 0003-8504
DOI - 10.1002/ad.1273
Subject(s) - monad (category theory) , metaphysics , simple (philosophy) , philosophy , epistemology , german , projective geometry , computer science , pure mathematics , mathematics , differential geometry , functor , linguistics
Here Bernard Cache provides a detailed analysis of a paper written in 1636 by the French mathematician, architect and engineer, Girard Desargues. Desargues is best known as the founder of projective geometry. Cache explains how he initally developed this significant concept in response to the very practical problems of producing a perspectival drawing. The introduction of projective geometry, though, had potentially more far‐reaching implications on philosophical thought, informing the theory of monads developed by the German philosopher and mathematician Gottfried Leibniz in 1714 to explain the metaphysics of simple substances. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.