Volume of Gabriel's Horn/Historical Note
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
Historical Note to the Volume of Gabriel's Horn
The volume of Gabriel's horn was first demonstrated by Evangelista Torricelli in $1643$.
The result caused great astonishment at the time, as it was the first example of a solid figure demonstrated to be of infinite extent while also having finite volume.
As Thomas Hobbes put it:
- To understand this for sense, it is not required that a man should be a geometrician or a logician, but that he should be mad.
Sources
- 1992: George F. Simmons: Calculus Gems ... (previous) ... (next): Chapter $\text {A}.15$: Torricelli ($\text {1608}$ – $\text {1647}$)