Long-buried dismantling of a centuries-old myth: Newton’s P r i n c i p i</

DOI10.1119/1.16133MaRDI QIDQ3984747zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Robert Weinstock

Publication date 27 June 1992

Published in American Journal of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1119/1.16133

zbMATH Keywords

inverse-square orbits

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 17th century (01A45) History of mechanics of particles and systems (70-03)

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