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Group: Morocco, 'Alawi (Filali) Sultanate of
People: Jacopo della Quercia
Topic: Western Art: 1768 to 1780
Location: Rendlesham Suffolk United Kingdom

Leibniz, in 1686, first defines the curvature …

Years: 1686 - 1686

Leibniz, in 1686, first defines the curvature of a curve at each point in terms of the circle that best approximates the curve at that point.

Mathematicians from antiquity had described some curves as curving more than others and straight lines as not curving at all.