Lost in translation? Reading Newton on inverse-cube trajectories

DOI10.1007/S00407-015-0170-ZzbMATH Open1335.01015OpenAlexW2098578301MaRDI QIDQ256594FDOQ256594

Authors: Niccolò Guicciardini 

Publication date: 9 March 2016

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00407-015-0170-z

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zbMATH Keywords

Gregoryinverse-cube law of motionNewton's physics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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