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Newton’s Principia

2017· book· en· W2160296194 on OpenAlex
Chris Smeenk, Eric Schliesser

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Bibliographic record

VenueOxford University Press eBooks · 2017
Typebook
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicHistory of Science and Medicine
Canadian institutionsWestern University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsNewton's law of universal gravitationNatural philosophyContext (archaeology)Motion (physics)Newton's laws of motionNatural (archaeology)Natural lawTheoretical physicsEpistemologyAtomismGravitationPhilosophyPhysicsClassical mechanicsHistoryArchaeology

Abstract

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This article examines the historical context of Isaac Newton’s Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy (Principia) and how it reoriented natural philosophy for generations. It first considers how the Principia extends and refines the ideas of De Motu, taking into account the three Laws of Motion, the force responsible for the planetary trajectories, the motion of projectiles in a resisting medium, and the law of universal gravitation. It then discusses three changes that influenced fundamentally the content and reception of the Principia: the relabelling and rewording of nine ‘hypotheses’ (into ‘phenomena’ and ‘rules of reasoning’) at the start of Book 3; the addition of the General Scholium; and changes that minimized explicit commitments to atomism. It also assesses the impact of the Principia on the development of physics and concludes with an overview of Newton’s theory about the cause of gravity

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Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.615
Threshold uncertainty score0.924

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Opus teacher head0.051
GPT teacher head0.212
Teacher spread0.161 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it