Saunders, Simon (2013) Rethinking Newton's Principia. [Preprint]
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It is widely accepted that the notion of an inertial frame is central to Newtonian mechanics and that the correct space-time structure underlying Newton’s methods in Principia is neo-Newtonian or Galilean space-time. I argue to the contrary that inertial frames are not needed in Newton’s theory of motion, and that the right space-time structure for Newton’s Principia requires the notion of parallelism of spatial directions at different times and nothing more.
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| Additional Information: | Published in Philosophy of Science, Vol.80, No. 1 (January 2013), pp.22-48. | ||||||
| Keywords: | Newton, inertial frame, relationalism, absolutism, Corollary V1, Machianism, Newtonian gravity, equivalence principle, Newtonian cosmology, Maxwell space-time, Newton-Huygens space-time, Newton-Cartan space-time. | ||||||
| Subjects: | General Issues > Scientific Metaphysics Specific Sciences > Physics > Classical Physics Specific Sciences > Physics > Cosmology General Issues > Laws of Nature General Issues > Structure of Theories Specific Sciences > Physics > Symmetries/Invariances |
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| Depositing User: | simon saunders | ||||||
| Date Deposited: | 21 Sep 2016 12:03 | ||||||
| Last Modified: | 21 Sep 2016 12:03 | ||||||
| Item ID: | 12451 | ||||||
| Subjects: | General Issues > Scientific Metaphysics Specific Sciences > Physics > Classical Physics Specific Sciences > Physics > Cosmology General Issues > Laws of Nature General Issues > Structure of Theories Specific Sciences > Physics > Symmetries/Invariances |
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| Date: | January 2013 | ||||||
| URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/12451 |
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