Isaac Newton’s early documents on circular motion: can the dynamic reasoning in the “Principia” be found in them?

Some historians claim that Isaac Newton had already formulated the categories in the Principia twenty years earlier. This is based on two extant documents (1664–1665 and 1669). Derek Whiteside claims that second order differentials are essential categories in the book, and that Newton had not yet ma...

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Main Author: Penha Maria Cardozo Dias
Format: Article
Language:Portuguese
Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Física 2023-11-01
Series:Revista Brasileira de Ensino de Física
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1806-11172023000100808&tlng=en