From: "JACK L. URETSKY (C) 1996; HEP DIV., ARGONNE NATIONAL LAB, ARGONNE, IL 60439" <JLU@hep.anl.gov>
Date: Wed, 12 Jun 1996 20:17:17 -0500 (CDT)
Hi Alex-
You write:
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For a complete and thoughful discussion of Newton's Laws and their
implications see
Foundations of Physics
by
Lindsay and Margenau
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For a delightfully iconoclastic examination of the "Newton
Myth" and the necessity of the 3 "laws", see Arnold, "Huygens & Barrow,
Newton & Hooke" (Birkhaeuser 1990). Arnold is one of the giants of
modern mechanics. The book is an "expanded version" of a 1986 lecture
at the Moscow Mathematical Society.
Regards,
Jack
"What did Barrow's lectures contain? Bourbaki writes with some
scorn that in his book in a hundred pages of the text there are about
180 drawings (citation). (Concerning Bourbaki's books it can be said
that in a thousand pages there is not one drawing, and it is not at all
clear which is worse)." Arnold, "Huygens & Barrow, Newton & Hooke", p 40.