NEWTON'S ACHIEVEMENT The significance, however, of Newton's achievement lay not only in its provision of a serviceable and logically satisfactory basis for mechanics proper ; up to the end of the nineteenth century it formed the program of all theoretical... The Observatory - Page 1491927Full view - About this book
| Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1928 - 720 pages
...satisfactory basis for mechanics proper ; up to the end of the nineteenth century it formed the program of all theoretical physical research. All physical...force had to be amplified and adapted to the type of phenomena which was being considered. Newton himself tried to apply this program in optics, on the... | |
| Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1928 - 722 pages
...satisfactory basis for mechanics proper ; up to the end of the nineteenth century it formed the program of all theoretical physical research. All physical...phenomena were to be referred to masses subject to Xewton's law of motion. Only the law of force had to be amplified and adapted to the type of phenomena... | |
| 1927 - 430 pages
...the time. It may seem to us to-day to be only a small step from Galileo's observations to Newton-s laws of motion. But it has to be observed that the...The optics of the undulatory theory also made use of Newton-s law of motion, the law being applied to continuously diffused masses. The kinetic theory of... | |
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