| Pioneer | Journal where reappraisal appeared | Title | Link to article containing reappraisal |
| Bonaventura Cavalieri | Science in Context | "Of pashas, popes, and indivisibles" | 23g |
Bonaventura Cavalieri (1598-1647) was an Italian mathematician who
worked on indivisibles. Both he and his student Stefano Degli Angeli
(1623-1697) were members of the order of the jesuats (with an "a").
Cavalieri published two books on indivisibles, and Degli Angeli
published nine books on indivisibles.
Their work was attacked by jesuit (with an "i") mathematicians Guldin,
Tacquet, and others.
The jesuat order fell out of favor with the pope who suppressed it in
1668 and transferred its assets to the war effort against the
Ottomans, who prevailed a year later (upon hearing the news, the pope
fell ill and died a few months later).
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