Re: Pluto & Bode

have you read Bernoulli's brachistochrone paper?

there is another book on it, out, called _The Calculus Wars_,
which at least (as I recall) shows how to use both
of the notations (ask Conway, what the dots are good for;
I forgot what he wrote, when I asked him on Geometry.pre-college,
or whatever it was on Swarthmore's site).

anyway, this book doesn't have any notion that
there was a political reason for the attacks
of the "Newton circle" (in other word, conspiracy). as for Hooke's
role,
I'll see if I can find the text of the keynoter
of the Ninth Annual Nonlinear Science confab,
which was at the faculty center, here.

Newton had to invent calculus and differential equations to do the
deed. Hooke did not have the mathematical talent to do it. Credit to
Hooke for suggesting to Newton that the motion of planets is the
combination of a tangential velocity and and inward pointing force.
But that is the merest outline of the idea. Newton did the details so
he gets most of the credit.

Sounds like we've got ourselves the makings of another conspiracy theory
here, boys!

thus:
I think this is easy to guess at, since
it is approximately my own situation....
I took a two-year course in electronics engineering,
doing passably well as they say, but have never entered
into the field. it only gives me some insight
into the use of complex numbers, "period."

I believe that JSH will not be able to handle the subject matters in

thus:
the brachistocrhone problem actually helped Leibniz and Bernoulli
to establish "the" calculus. I'm sure, Newton had to weigh-in
with his cannonballs, but, Who cares?... I mean,
all he did was algebraize Kepler's orbital constraints
-- and didn't cite his contemporary ... I mean, Galileo didn't, either
--
although evidence points to his stealing the 2nd-power law
from what's-his-face (no-one knows, since Sir Duh destroyed all
of his portraits at the Society, which wrote a whole Philosphic Tract,
to obfuscate the basic idea....
Bernoulli's paper is fairly elementary,
even in French.

thus:
to be featured in the next movie,
"Harry Potter's New Crusades and
the 'Public' Charter Schools: Faith-based Initiatives
in the New Millennium CCE: Come the Rapture,
No Child Left Behind!:"
http://larouchepub.com/other/2006/3333uk_scoop_soc.html

--it takes some to jitterbug!
http://members.tripod.com/~american_almanac
http://www.21stcenturysciencetech.com/2006_articles/Amplitude.W05.pdf
http://www.rwgrayprojects.com/synergetics/plates/figs/plate01.html
http://larouchepub.com/other/2006/3322_ethanol_no_science.html
http://www.wlym.com/pdf/iclc/howthenation.pdf

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