Metoda Anguli Contactus Newtona

• Authors: Jarosław Wawrzecki

Title variants

EN

Isaac Newton’s anguli contactus method

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

In this paper we discuss the geometrical method for calculating the curvature of a class of curves from the third Book of Isaac Newton’s Principia. The method involves any curve which is generated from an elementary curve (actually from any curve whose curvature we known of) by means of transformation increasing the polar angular coordinate in a constant ratio, but unchanging the polar radial angular coordinate.

Keywords

EN

curvature of a curve; order of contact; the angle of contact (anguli contactus); osculating circle; the centripetal force

• Publisher: Instytut Historii Nauki Polskiej Akademii Nauk
• Journal: Kwartalnik Historii Nauki i Techniki
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 59
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 83-94

Contributors

author

Jarosław Wawrzecki

• Instytut Historii Nauki im. L. i A. Birkenmajerów, Kraków