Argument
Newton's laws of motion
Overview
classical formulation of Mechanics by Isaac Newton
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In other words they are the reflections in the space of {alpha} of a set of fixed axes in the space of some other time-system {beta}. Accordingly the group of dynamical axes required for Newton's Laws of Motion is the outcome of the necessity of referring motion to a body at rest in the space of some one time-system in order to obtain a coherent account of physical properties.
Alfred North Whitehead, The Concept of Nature The Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, November 1919
States what Newton's laws of motion is; names Newton's laws of motion.
This whole set of frameworks is on a level in respect to Newton's laws. We will call them Dynamical frameworks. Now, suppose there are two observers, A and B. They agree in their non-metrical projective geometry, _e.g._, what A calls a straight line so does B.
Alfred North Whitehead, The organisation of thought, educational and scientific
Opens on Newton's laws of motion; names Newton's laws of motion.
The cause must thus lie outside the system. We are therefore led to the conception that the general laws of motion which determine specially the forms of S₁ and S₂ must be of such a kind, that the mechanical behaviour of S₁ and S₂ must be essentially conditioned by the distant masses, which we had not brought into the system considered. These distant masses, (and their relative motion as regards the bodies under…
Albert Einstein, The Principle of Relativity
Close in meaning to Newton's laws of motion; the term itself is not named.
Philosophers who discussed Newton's laws of motion
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- Émilie du Châtelet
- Force
- Avicenna
- General relativity
- Differential equation
- Isaac Newton
- Johannes Kepler
- William Gilbert (physicist)
- Jean Buridan
- Synthese
- Kepler's laws of planetary motion
- Mass
- Classical mechanics
- Pierre Gassendi
- Maxwell's equations
- Momentum
- Motion
- Optics
- Heliocentrism
- Newton's law of universal gravitation
- Quantum mechanics
- René Descartes
- John Philoponus
- Galilean invariance
Place in the tradition
Part of American philosophy.