Author： Gauld Colin
Publisher： Springer Publishing Company
ISSN： 0926-7220
Source： Science and Education, Vol.13, Iss.4-5, 2004-07, pp. : 321-332
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Abstract
The treatment of pendulum motion in early 18th century Newtonian textbooks is quite different to what we find in today's physics textbooks and is based on presuppositions and mathematical techniques which are not widely used today. In spite of a desire to present Newton's new philosophy of nature as found in his
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