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5.10: End of Chapter

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    References

    Newton quotation toward the end of Section 5.8: Sir Isaac Newton, Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy and His System of the World (Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica), Joseph Streater, London, July 5,1686 ; translated from Latin - the scholarly language of Newton’s time-by Andrew Motte in 1729 , revised and edited by Florian Cajori and published in two paperback volumes (University of California Press, Berkeley, 1962).

    Section 5.9 uses slightly modified passages from Charles W. Misner, Kip S. Thorne, and John Archibald Wheeler, Gravitation (W.H. Freeman, New York, 1973), pages 5-8. Figure 5-13 is taken directly from this reference, its caption slightly altered from the original.


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