The Key to Newton's Dynamics
Subtitle: The Kepler Problem and the Principia
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: February 29, 1996
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 330
ISBN-13: 9780520202177
Subjects: Classical mechanics; History of science; Kepler's laws; Science; Science/Mathematics; Astronomy - General; History; Science / Astronomy; Science / General; Science-History; Celestial mechanics
First sentence: Isaac Newton's Philosophiae Naturalis Pricipia Mathematica (The mathematical principles of natural philosophy), hereafter referred to as the Principia, justifiably occupies a position as one of the most influential works in Western culture, but it is a work more revered than read.