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The basic tool of scientific theory was, and still is, Newton’s differential calculus. Gone forever was the Greeks’ inability to comprehend infinitesimals, Zeno’s paradoxes with Achilles never catching up with a tortoise, and nobody ever attaining a fixed target, leading directly to the impossibility of motion.
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Pismen, L. (2018). Continuum Mechanics. In: The Swings of Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-99777-3_2
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