I found this paper by John Cleave, <A HREF="https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/686641.pdf">Cauchy, Convergence, and Continuity</A> (1971) quite illuminating. > According to our present-day (Weierstrassian) conception of the > continuum, Cauchy's 1821 theorem is false – one must impose the > condition of uniform convergence to get a correct statement. Lakatos > (1966) first pointed out that the theorem is a perfectly correct > statement about a Leibnizian continuum – an extension of the > Weierstrassian continuum in which there are infinitely large and > infinitely small numbers. He shows that if "the neighbourhood of a > particular point" is understood as the set of points infinitely close > to that value, and if the usual definition of convergence is assumed > for sequences of numbers in the extended continuum, then Cauchy's > proof is correct. > > The aim of this paper is to examine Lakatos' claim more closely. We > show that Cauchy's notions can be comfortably interpreted in terms of > non-standard analysis and, in particular, that convergence of a series > of functions in the infinitesimal neighbourhood of a point in Cauchy's > sense is equivalent to the notion of "point of uniform convergence" in > the Weierstrassian sense. If the correctness of the interpretation of > Cauchy by non-standard analysis is granted one must therefore concede > that the notion of uniform convergence was implicit in Cauchy's work > of 1821 before it was formulated explicitly in $\epsilon-\delta$ terms > by Seidel (1847) or Weierstrass. See also a subsequent analysis in the same direction by Cutland et al. <A HREF="https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/687214.pdf"> On Cauchy's notion of infinitesimal</A> (1988).