Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Feb 1999
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Arch. Hist. Exact Sci., Vol. 53, No. 6, p. 577 - 597
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
History Of Astronomy: Celestial Mechanics
Scientific paper
The author examines the interpretation of Newton's theory of the precession of the equinoxes presented by Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar in his book "Newton's Principia for the common reader" (Clarendon Press, 1995; see abstr. 63.003.040). Based on his own analysis of the respective chapters of the "Principia" published in a recent paper (see abstr. 70.004.121), the author ventures to show that Chandrasekhar has seriously misunderstood Newton's procedure. Specifically, the author expounds his own interpretation of the meaning of Lemmas 1, 2, and 3, and of Proposition 39 of the "Principia", and compares this meaning with Chandrasekhar's interpretation. He argues that Chandrasekhar's interpretation of Proposition 39 is based on modern concepts of rigid body dynamics and does not provide a satisfactory representation of Newton's method.
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