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Newton’s Path to Universal Gravitation: The Role of the Pendulum

Pierre Boulos

Science & Education · 2006 · 10 citations · 7 references

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Newton and the Fudge Factor

Richard S. Westfall · Science · 1973 · 165 citations

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The Vortex Theory of Planetary Motions

E. J. Aiton, Donald Goldsmith · American Journal of Physics · 1973 · 106 citations

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From Kepler's laws, so-called, to universal gravitation: Empirical factors

Curtis A. Wilson · Archive for History of Exact Sciences · 1970 · 95 citations

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The great inequality of Jupiter and Saturn: from Kepler to Laplace

Curtis Wilson · Archive for History of Exact Sciences · 1985 · 56 citations

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D'Alembert versus Euler on the precession of the equinoxes and the mechanics of rigid bodies

Curtis Wilson · Archive for History of Exact Sciences · 1987 · 51 citations

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