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idea of the limit of a function goes back to Bernard Bolzano who, in 1817, introduced the basics of the epsilon-delta technique (see (?, ?)-definition of limit below) to define continuous functions. However, his work was not known during his lifetime. Bruce Pourciau argues that Isaac Newton, in his 1687 Principia, demonstrates a more sophisticated understanding of limits than he is generally

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