| 书目名称 | MacLaurin‘s Physical Dissertations |
| 编辑 | Ian Tweddle |
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| 概述 | Three important works are made generally accessible, in English, for the first time.The original - and extremely rare - Latin text of MacLaurin‘s dissertation on gravity is provided in an appendix.Inc |
| 丛书名称 | Sources and Studies in the History of Mathematics and Physical Sciences |
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| 描述 | .The Scottish mathematician Colin MacLaurin (1698-1746) is best known for developing and extending Newton’s work in calculus, geometry and gravitation; his 2-volume work "Treatise of Fluxions" (1742) was the first systematic exposition of Newton’s methods. It is well known that MacLaurin was awarded prizes by the Royal Academy of Sciences, Paris, for his earlier work on the collision of bodies (1724) and the tides (1740); however, the contents of these essays are less familiar – although some of the material is discussed in the Treatise of Fluxions - and the essays themselves often hard to obtain. This book presents these important works in translation for the first time, preceded by a translation of MacLaurin’s MA dissertation on gravity (Glasgow, 1713) which provides evidence of his early study of Newtonian principles. ...In his essentially descriptive discussion of gravity MacLaurin ranges over planetary orbits, vortices and theology. His discussion of collisions includes a disputatious account of what should be understood by the force of a moving body, a contentious topic at the time. The essay on the tides has the original version of his celebrated theorem on the equilibrium o |
| 出版日期 | Book 2007 |
| 关键词 | Colin MacLaurin; Collisions; Figure of the Earth; Tides; calculus; geometry; mathematics; theorem |
| 版次 | 1 |
| doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84628-776-3 |
| isbn_softcover | 978-1-84996-624-5 |
| isbn_ebook | 978-1-84628-776-3Series ISSN 2196-8810 Series E-ISSN 2196-8829 |
| issn_series | 2196-8810 |
| copyright | Springer-Verlag London 2007 |
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