Abstract
This chapter will provide an overview of the ideas concerning mathematical continua and related topics such as the nature of number that were available to early modern English mathematical practitioners. This summary is intended to furnish a yardstick by which we can measure the departures of early modern mathematicians from standard classical opinions. Moreover, it will make it unnecessary to recapitulate, for example, Aristotle’s views on continua every time a comparison is made between his ideas and an early modem concept.
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