Leibniz, in 1686, first defines the curvature…
1686 CE
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.
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