The Mathematical Papers of Isaac Newton
Volume 6
Part of The Mathematical Papers of Sir Isaac Newton
- Real Author: Isaac Newton
- Editor: D. T. Whiteside
- Date Published: February 2008
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521045858
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This volume reproduces mathematically significant extracts from the extant manuscript record of Newton's researches during 1684–5 into the dynamical motion of bodies under the deviating action of a central force, and his subsequent struggles thereby to explain the observed motions of solar comets and of the moon. The short tract De motu Corporum, which Newton initially composed on this topic in the early autumn of 1684, was primarily built around his earlier proof that in the absence of external perturbation a planetary eclipse may be traversed under an inverse-square force pull to its solar focus, but also discussed the simplest case of resisted ballistic motion. In epilogue, excerpts from his abandoned grand scheme for revising the Principia in the early 1690s detail Newton's planned refinements to his printed exposition of central force, both simplifying and extending it, introducing therein a novel general fluxional measure of such force – but failing adequately to apply it to the primary case of conic motion.
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- Date Published: February 2008
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521045858
- length: 660 pages
- dimensions: 244 x 34 x 170 mm
- weight: 1.04kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Geometry and Dynamics of Motion:
1. Fundamental Investigations 'On the Motion of Bodies'
2. Approaches to the Solution of Particular Problems
3. The 'De Motu Corporum Liber Primus' Remodelled
Index of Names
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