Space and time in Maclaurin: the case of the shape of the Earth (Q2837154)
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scientific article; zbMATH DE number 6186333
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scientific article; zbMATH DE number 6186333 |
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10 July 2013
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Colin Maclaurin
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Isaac Newton
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fluxions
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space
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time
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shape of the Earth
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Space and time in Maclaurin: the case of the shape of the Earth (English)
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Colin Maclaurin (1698--1746) developed essentially Newton's ideas in \textit{Calculus} that were ingeniously commented in his ``Account of Sir Isaac Newton's philosophical discoveries''. The two-volume ``Treatise of fluxions'' was in fact his answer to Dean Berkeley's critical work ``The analyst''. Maclaurin advanced there the theory of fluxions, introduced formally notions of space and time and applied the obtained results to the description of the shape of the Earth.
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