Visiting Newton's atelier before the Principia, 1679–1684

DOI10.1080/00033790.2019.1566497MaRDI QIDQ6079321zbMATH OpenWikidataFDO

Authors Michael Nauenberg

Publication date 29 September 2023

Published in Annals of Science (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.06871

zbMATH Keywords

Robert HookeEdmund Halley\textit{Principia}

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

Abstract: The manuscripts that presumably contained Newton's early development of the fundamental concepts that led to his Principia have been lost. A plausible reconstruction of this development is presened based on Newton's exchange of letters with Robert Hooke in 1679, with Edmund Halley in 1686, and on some clues in the diagram associated with Proposition1 in Book1 of the Principia that have been ignored in the past. The graphical method associated with this proposition leads to a rapidly convergent method to obtain orbital curves for central forces, and elucidates how Newton may have have been led to formulate some of his other propositions in the Principia.

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