Reading the Master: Newton and the Birth of Celestial Mechanics

DOI10.2307/2974818zbMath0891.01021OpenAlexW4253126539MaRDI QIDQ4340067

Bruce Pourciau

Publication date: 6 July 1998

Published in: The American Mathematical Monthly (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.2307/2974818

zbMATH Keywords

trajectoriesRobert Hooke

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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