MacLaurin’s Physical Dissertations

• Main Author: Tweddle, Ian (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Springer London, 2007.
• Series: Sources and Studies in the History of Mathematics and Physical Sciences
• Subjects: Mathematics.; Earth sciences.; Applied mathematics.; Engineering mathematics.; History.; Continuum physics.; Physics.; History of Mathematical Sciences.; Applications of Mathematics.; Classical Continuum Physics.; History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics.; Earth Sciences, general.

The Scottish mathematician Colin MacLaurin (1698-1746) is best known for developing and extending Newton’s work in calculus, geometry and gravitation; his 2-volume work "Treatise of Fluxions" (1742) was the first systematic exposition of Newton’s methods. It is well known that MacLaurin wa...

Table of Contents:

• General Introduction
• General Introduction
• MacLaurin on Gravity
• to Part I
• Translation of MacLaurin’s Dissertation
• MacLaurin on Collisions
• to Part II
• Translation of MacLaurin’s Essay
• MacLaurin on the Tides
• to Part III
• Translation of MacLaurin’s Essay.