Table of Contents

PREFACE 
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 
PART I • THE BACKGROUND TO NEWTON'S SOLUTION
1. A Simplified Solution: The Area Law, the Linear Dynamics
Ratio, and the Law of Gravitation 
2. An Overview of Newton's Dynamics: The Problem of the Planets and the Principia 
3. Newton's Early Dynamics: On Uniform Circular Motion 
PART II • A GUIDED STUDY TO NEWTON'S SOLUTION
4. The Paradigm Constructed: On Motion,Theorems 1, 2, and 3 
5. The Paradigm Applied: On Motion, Problems 1, 2, and 3 
6. The Paradigm Extended: On Motion,Theorem 4 and Problem 4 
PART III • THE REVISIONS AND EXTENSIONS
TO NEWTON'S SOLUTION
7. The Principia and Its Relationship to On Motion: A Reference Guide for the Reader 
8. Newton's Unpublished Proposed Revisions: Two New Methods Revealed 
9. Newton's Published Recast Revisions:Two New Methods Concealed 
10. Newton's Dynamics in Modem Mathematical Dress:The Orbital Equation and the Dynamics Ratios 
APPENDIX
An English Translation of Sections 1, 2, and 3 of Book One from the First (1687) Edition of Newton's Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy 
NOTES 
REFERENCES
INDEX TO THE GUIDED STUDY AND THE TRANSLATION 
GENERAL INDEX

About the Author

J. Bruce Brackenridge is Alice G. Chapman Professor of Physics at Lawrence University.