Kepler's area law in the \textit{Principia}: filling in some details in Newton's proof of Proposition 1.

DOI10.1016/S0315-0860(02)00027-7zbMath1038.01010arXivmath/0112048MaRDI QIDQ1421933

Michael Nauenberg

Publication date: 3 February 2004

Published in: Historia Mathematica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0112048

zbMATH Keywords

Newton's PrincipiaKepler's area law

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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