Newton's Principia for the Common ReaderA comprehensive analysis of the main themes of the Principia by Nobel Laureate Chandrasekhar. Beautifully produced, this superb work will be a collector's item for years to come. |
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The year 1679 | 7 |
Definitions and Axioms | 17 |
The Scholium to the Laws of Motion | 30 |
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ABFD angle angular apse apsides axis body Book centre of gravity centripetal attraction centripetal force Chapter circle circular orbit comet common centre conclude conic sections conjugate hyperbola constant of areas Corollary cos² curve cycloid derived direction distance Earth eccentric anomaly eccentricity ellipse elliptic orbit equal equation 11 figure focus follows given height Hence hyperbola integral intersections inverse-square law inversely Kepler's equation latus rectum law of attraction law of centripetal Lemma M₁ M₂ mass Moon Newton considers nodes obtain orbit described parabola parallel particle perpendicular Principia problem Prop proportional Proposition XI quadratures r₁ radii radius ratio rectilinear motion relation revolving orbit right line Scholium semilatus rectum semimajor axis sin² solution sphere square syzygies tangent Theorem variation vector velocity vertex