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However, this justification by the concept of limit was only developed in the
works of A L Cauchy in the early 19th century Lastly, it is worth mentioning the
following quotation by Lie Sophie’s:
“It may be said that the conceptions of differential quotient and integral which
in their origin certainly go back to Archimedes were introduced in Science by the
investigations of Kepler, Descartes, Cavalieri, Fermat and Wallis