Newton's principia, first book sections I, II, III, with notes and illustrations and a collection of problems, principally intended as examples of Newton's methods (1900)
of the string, prove that the tension will be a maximum ata point P, where SP is perpendicular to CS, and that if CS be halfthe length of the string, the two minimum and the maximumtension;^ will be as 0, 4 and 3 ^3. 188 NEWTON. PEOP. VII. PROBLEM II. A lody moves in the circumference of a circle^… … chord of the circle drawn through S from P, theposition of the body at any time, and VGA thediameter through F. Join PA, and draw SYperpendicular to PY, the tangent to the curve at P. By Prop. VI. Cor 8, if F be the measure of the accele- rating effect of the centripetal force, F = ^, and, since…
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![An illustration from Nicolai Copernici Torinensis De reuolutionibus orbium coelestium, libri VI : Habes in hoc opere iam recens nato, & aedito, studiose lector, motus stellarum, tam fixarum, quàm erraticarum, cum ex ueteribus, tum etiam ex recentibus obseruationibus restitutos: & nouis insuper ac admirabilibus hypothesibus ornatos. Habes etiam tabulas expeditissimas, ex quibus eosdem ad quoduis tempus quàm facillime caculare poteris. Igitur eme, lege, fruere. [Line in Greek] (1543)](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/ia-nicolaicopernici00cope-348-238.webp)
