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We have seen some of the roots of the integral calculus in the method of exhaustion to perform quadratures, at least as exemplified by Archimedes’ quadrature of the parabola. These ideas were to be resurrected and perfected in the seventeenth century.
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González-Velasco, E.A. (2011). The Calculus. In: Journey through Mathematics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-92154-9_5
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