2015
DOI: 10.1007/s00407-015-0170-z
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Lost in translation? Reading Newton on inverse-cube trajectories

Abstract: This paper examines an annotation in Newton's hand found by H. W. Turnbull in David Gregory's papers in the Library of the Royal Society (London). It will be shown that Gregory asked Newton to explain to him how the trajectories of a body accelerated by an inverse-cube force are determined in a corollary in the Principia: an important topic for gravitation theory, since tidal forces are inverse-cube. This annotation opens a window on the more hidden mathematical methods which Newton deployed in his magnum opus… Show more

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