History
The first known occurrence of explicitly infinite sets is in Galileo's last book Two New Sciences written while he was under house arrest by the Inquisition.
Galileo argues that the set of squares is the same size as because there is a one-to-one correspondence:
And yet, as he says, is a proper subset of and even gets less dense as the numbers get larger.
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