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I SHOULD be much obliged if you could help me by inserting a query on this point. Lazare Carnot, at the end of his “Reflexions sur la Métaphysique du Calcul Infinitésimal,” stated that “it is singular that in this indispensable condition of elimination the real character of Infinitesimal Quantities … should not hitherto have been discovered.”
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JOURDAIN, P. The Origin of the Doctrine of Compensation of Errors in the Infinitesimal Calculus. Nature 60, 245 (1899). https://doi.org/10.1038/060245c0
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