Newton's Principia for the common reader / S. Chandrasekhar.
Newton's Principia for the common reader / S. Chandrasekhar.
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Oxford : Clarendon Press ; Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1995 (1997 printing)
Date
1995
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TQ064471
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English
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xix, 593 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Contents
1. The beginnings and the writing of the Principia -- 2. Basic concepts: Definitions and Axioms -- 3. On the notion of limits and the ratios of evanescent quantities -- 4. On the motion of particles under centripetal attraction: an introduction to Newton's treatment -- 5. The law of areas and some r...
20. The figure of the Earth and of the planets -- 21. On the theory of tides -- 22. The lunar theory -- 23. The precession of the equinoxes -- 24. On comets -- 25. The effect of air-drag on the descent of bodies -- 26. The solid of least resistance -- 27. The problem of the brachistochrone -- 28. Th...
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Oxford : Clarendon Press ; Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1995 (1997 printing)
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England
Date Published
1995
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Newton's Principia for the common reader / S. Chandrasekhar.
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Newton's Principia.
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Includes bibliographical references.
Transferred from NQ531/11.
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TQ064471
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0198517440
9780198517443
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531
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991002646329702626
