Visiting Newton's atelier before the Principia, 1679–1684
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Publication:6079321
DOI10.1080/00033790.2019.1566497zbMATH Open1527.01016arXiv1805.06871WikidataQ92098169 ScholiaQ92098169MaRDI QIDQ6079321FDOQ6079321
Authors: Michael Nauenberg 
Publication date: 29 September 2023
Published in: Annals of Science (Search for Journal in Brave)
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.
Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.06871
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