Force, deflection, and time: Proposition VI of Newton's \textit{Principia}

DOI10.1016/J.HM.2006.08.005MaRDI QIDQ997152zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Bruce Pourciau

Publication date 23 July 2007

Published in Historia Mathematica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hm.2006.08.005

zbMATH Keywords

centripetal forceNewtonProposition VI

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

Review text

Newton's \textit{Principia}, Book I, Proposition VI concerns the centripetal force. The author studies the evolution of the proposition and its corrolaries. He criticizes two recent interpretations by well-known scholars, \textit{S. Chandrasekhar} [Newton's \(Principia\) for the common reader. Oxford: Clarendon Press (1995; Zbl 0821.01012)] and \textit{I. B. Cohen} [The \textit{Principia}: mathematical principles of natural philosophy. Newly translated from the 3rd edition (1726) by I. Bernard Cohen and Anne Whitman, assisted by Julia Budenz. Preceded by `A guide to Newton's \textit{Principia}' by I. Bernard Cohen. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press (1999; Zbl 0961.01034)]. The author then focuses on his own interpretation by means of two different reconstructions of the proof of Proposition VI. He concludes with a discussion of the validity of the proof of the first corollary.

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