Rethinking Newton's Principia

被引：40
作者：
Saunders, Simon [1 ]
机构：
[1] Radcliffe Observ Quarter, Philosophy Ctr, Oxford OX2 6GG, England
来源：
PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE | 2013年 / 80卷 / 01期
关键词：
GENERAL COVARIANCE; COSMOLOGY; INCONSISTENT;
D O I：
10.1086/668881
中图分类号：
N09 [自然科学史]; B [哲学、宗教];
学科分类号：
01 ; 0101 ; 010108 ; 060207 ; 060305 ; 0712 ;
摘要：
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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页数：27
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