Passage to the limit in Proposition I, Book I of Newton's \textit{Principia}.

DOI10.1016/S0315-0860(02)00008-3MaRDI QIDQ1421932zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Herman Erlichson

Publication date 3 February 2004

Published in Historia Mathematica (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

impulsevelocitymomentumforcemotive forcequantity of motion.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 17th century (01A45)

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