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2. Note on a Singular Passage in the Principia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 September 2014

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Extract

In the remarkable Scholium, appended to his chapter on the Laws of Motion, where Newton is showing what Wren, Wallis, and Huygens had done in connection with the impact of bodies, he uses the following very peculiar language:

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Proceedings 1184-85
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Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh , Volume 13 , 1886 , pp. 72 - 78
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Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1886

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