Sir Isaac Newton's Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy and His System of the WorldThis title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1934. |
Contents
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Determination of centripetal forces | 40 |
Determination of elliptic parabolic and hyperbolic orbits from | 68 |
xvii | 76 |
Determination of orbits in which bodies will revolve being | 128 |
Motion of bodies in given surfaces and the oscillating pendu | 148 |
Attractive forces of spherical bodies | 193 |
Attractive forces of bodies which are not spherical | 214 |
Motion of very small bodies when agitated by centripetal forces | 226 |
Motion of bodies that are resisted in the ratio of the velocity | 235 |
Motion of bodies that are resisted as the square of their velocities | 245 |
Motion of bodies that are resisted partly in the ratio of the | 272 |
Circular motion of bodies in resisting mediums | 282 |
THE SYSTEM OF THE WORLD | 397 |
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