The early application of the calculus to the inverse square force problem

DOI10.1007/s00407-009-0056-zzbMath1207.01009MaRDI QIDQ1956485

Michael Nauenberg

Publication date: 22 September 2010

Published in: Archive for History of Exact Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00407-009-0056-z

zbMATH Keywords

Isaac Newton; Leibniz; Pierre Varignon; Johann Bernoulli; law of gravitation; history of calculus; Jacob Hermann

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

01A50: History of mathematics in the 18th century

01A45: History of mathematics in the 17th century

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