These discoveries were arguably his most important, and certainly those for which history has best remembered him. ... Galileo claimed to have seen mountains on the Moon, to have proved the Milky Way was made up of tiny stars, and to have seen four small bodies orbiting Jupiter (History of Mathematics). ...

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HISTORY AND DEVELOPMENT OF CALCULUS Team Number: 6   Name                                                            ID No 1.    ... Perhaps the two most sought after concepts in the history of the subject were the integral and the derivative, as they were a necessity in finding out information needed about the physical world. ... The history of calculus falls into several distinct time periods, most notably the ancient, medieval, and modern periods. ... Calculus provided a new opportunity in mathematical...

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