About an Argument of Newton

Details About an Argument of Newton About an Argument of Newton

Apr 1951

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American Journal of Physics, Volume 19, Issue 4, pp. 197-202 (1951).

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The view is first developed that it was in the effort of Copernicus' successors to justify fundamentally the validity of the change of conception usually associated with his name that the science of dynamics took a systematic shape. Then Newton's argument is examined that the ptolemaic alternative must mean a disruption of the solar system which is not witnessed and, therefore, the Copernicus-Kepler scheme ought to be accepted absolutely. This particular reasoning of Newton is shown, however, to suffer from a defect. The basis of others of Newton's arguments on the subject is considered, and it is presented that the application of dynamical principles makes the copernican standpoint on planetary motions no more final than the high degree of probability adduced in its favor by Copernicus himself on the ground of its merit of simplicity and harmony as compared with Ptolemy's picture.

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