Some uses of proportion in Newton's principia, book I: A case study in applied mathematics

DOI10.1016/0039-3681(87)90018-5zbMath0621.01005OpenAlexW2074827856MaRDI QIDQ3757873

Emily Rolfe Grosholz

Publication date: 1987

Published in: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/0039-3681(87)90018-5

zbMATH Keywords

analytic geometryratioproportionapplication of mathematicsinfinitesimal analysis

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 17th century (01A45) History of mechanics of particles and systems (70-03)

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