Article ID: CBB000032770

Some uses of proportion in Newton's Principia, book I: A case study in applied mathematics (1987)

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Description “I want to argue that Newton's use of proportion-notation was appropriate and indeed advantageous to his mathematical physics; and that it reveals a complex interplay of mathematical and physical elements which illuminates the vexed philosophical problem of how to understand scientific idealization.”


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Authors & Contributors
Erlichson, Herman
Blay, Michel
Bucciantini, Massimo
Camerota, Michele
D'Agostino, Salvatore
De Pace, Anna
Journals
Historia Mathematica
Physis: Rivista Internazionale di Storia della Scienza
American Journal of Physics
Archives Internationales d'Histoire des Sciences
Centaurus: International Magazine of the History of Mathematics, Science, and Technology
Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation
Publishers
Cambridge University Press
Carocci Editore
Leo S. Olschki
Steiner
University of Chicago Press
Concepts
Mechanics
Mathematics
Physics
Gravitation
Science and religion
Cosmology
People
Newton, Isaac
Galilei, Galileo
Dechales, François Milliet
Descartes, René
Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier de
Hooke, Robert
Time Periods
17th century
18th century
16th century
Medieval
Renaissance
Institutions
Jesuits (Society of Jesus)
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