Evidence that Newton used the Calculus to discover some of the Propositions in his Principia

DOI10.1111/J.1600-0498.1997.TB00034.XMaRDI QIDQ4345009zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Herman Erlichson

Publication date 15 December 1997

Published in Centaurus (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1600-0498.1997.tb00034.x

zbMATH Keywords

quadratureNewtonvelocitymotionhyperbolaPrincipiaresistive forcesfluxional means

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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