TY - BOOK ID - 7986681 TI - The Key to Newton's Dynamics : The Kepler Problem and the Principia AU - Brackenridge, J. Bruce AU - Newton, Isaac PY - 1996 SN - 1282355007 9786612355004 0520916859 0585375828 9780520916852 0520200659 9780520200654 0520202171 9780520202177 9781282355002 9780585375823 PB - Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, DB - UniCat KW - Kepler's laws. KW - Celestial mechanics. KW - Gravitational astronomy KW - Mechanics, Celestial KW - Kepler laws KW - Kepler's laws of planetary motion KW - Planetary motion, Kepler's laws of KW - Astrophysics KW - Mechanics KW - Planetary theory KW - Planets KW - Orbits KW - Celestial mechanics KW - Kepler's laws KW - Astronomy KW - Newton, Isaac KW - 1600s. KW - academic. KW - analysis. KW - biographical. KW - cambridge. KW - centrifugal force. KW - conservation of motion. KW - cultural context. KW - curvature. KW - descartes. KW - famous person. KW - famous scientist. KW - galileo. KW - historical. KW - history buff. KW - kepler problem. KW - laws of motion. KW - mathematics. KW - newton. KW - newtons dynamics. KW - outer space. KW - physics. KW - planetary motion. KW - planets. KW - principia. KW - scholarly. KW - scientific. KW - scientist. KW - true story. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:7986681 AB - While much has been written on the ramifications of Newton's dynamics, until now the details of Newton's solution were available only to the physics expert. The Key to Newton's Dynamics clearly explains the surprisingly simple analytical structure that underlies the determination of the force necessary to maintain ideal planetary motion. J. Bruce Brackenridge sets the problem in historical and conceptual perspective, showing the physicist's debt to the works of both Descartes and Galileo. He tracks Newton's work on the Kepler problem from its early stages at Cambridge before 1669, through the revival of his interest ten years later, to its fruition in the first three sections of the first edition of the Principia. ER -