Article ID: CBB825187131

Visiting Newton's Atelier Before the Principia, 1679–1684 (2019)

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The worksheets that presumably contained Newton's early development of the fundamental concepts in his Principia have been lost. A plausible reconstruction of this development is presented based on Newton's exchange of letters with Robert Hooke in 1679, with Edmund Halley in 1686, and on some clues in the diagram associated with Proposition 1 in Book 1 of the Principia that have been ignored in the past. A graphical construction associated with this proposition leads to a rapidly convergent method to obtain orbits for central forces, which elucidates how Newton may have have been led to formulate some of his most fundamental propositions in the Principia.

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Authors & Contributors
Erlichson, Herman
John Gribbin
Love, David K.
Turner, Anthony J.
Thrower, Norman Joseph William
Stuchi, Teresinha J.
Concepts
Astronomy
Physics
Orbits; planets
Gravitation
Celestial mechanics
Cosmology
Time Periods
17th century
18th century
16th century
Ancient
19th century
Places
Italy
Europe
British Isles
Institutions
Royal Society of London
Jesuits (Society of Jesus)
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