Kepler's area law in the Principia: Filling in some details in Newton's proof of Proposition 1

Historia Mathematica

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 441-456

  Nauenberg, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Kepler's area law; Newton's Principia

Indexed keywords

EID: 0346961476     PISSN: 03150860     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0315-0860(02)00027-7     Document Type: Article

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