Newton's problems with rigid body dynamics in the light of his treatment of the precession of the equinoxes

DOI10.1007/S004070050024zbMath0919.01004OpenAlexW2087220103MaRDI QIDQ1266169

Geoffrey J. Dobson

Publication date: 26 August 1999

Published in: Archive for History of Exact Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s004070050024

zbMATH Keywords

moments of inertiarigid body mechanicsNewtontidesprecessionequinoxesprecession of the equinoxes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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