Vol. 17
2011 December
ISSN 1041-5440
DIO
The International Journal of Scientific History www.dioi.org
Searching for the Ether: Leopold Courvoiser’s Attempts to Measure the Absolute Velocity of the Solar System
The Very Early History of Trigonometry
An Early Use of the Chain Rule
2011 December
DIO 17
Table of Contents
Volume 17
Searching for the Ether: Leopold Courvoiser’s Attemtps to Measure the Absolute Velocity of the Solar System
Roberto De Andrade Martins 3 The Very Early History of Trigonometry Dennis Duke 34
An Early Use of the Chain Rule Dennis Duke 43
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