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Kepler: The Volume of a Wine Barrel
Course Topic(s): One-Variable Calculus | History of Calculus
In his analysis of volumes of wine barrels, Kepler used ideas that would become important in differential and integral calculus. This article provides you with visual imagery, much of it animated (via Java applets), to help share Kepler's ideas with your students.
Resource URL: http://mathdl.maa.org/mathDL/46/?pa=content&sa=viewDocument&nodeId=3499
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Subject classification(s):
Integration
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Differentiation
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Single Variable Calculus
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Calculus
Creator(s): Roberto Cardil
Contributor(s): Editor, Loci: Convergence
This resource was cataloged by Janet Beery
Publisher:MAA, MathDL Loci: Convergence
Resource copyright: MAA
This review was published on December 11, 2002
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