The parallelogram law in the works of d’Alembert and Kant
We compare two approaches given to the parallelogram law as a fundamental notion in eighteenth century mechanics. The authors we study are Kant and d’Alembert and we use the context created by Newton’s Principia as our point of departure.
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2012 |
| País: | México |
| Institución: | Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México |
| Repositorio: | Redalyc-UNAM |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:redalyc.org:339730820006 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=339730820006 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Filosofía phoronomy Parallelogram law composition of motion |
| Sumario: | We compare two approaches given to the parallelogram law as a fundamental notion in eighteenth century mechanics. The authors we study are Kant and d’Alembert and we use the context created by Newton’s Principia as our point of departure. |
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