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In the short treatise De Motu (1684),which serves as a precursor to the Principia Mathematica (1687),Newton essentially deals with the following two problems.
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Hauser, K., Lang, R. On the Geometrical and Physical Meaning of Newton’s Solution to Kepler’s Problem. The Mathematical Intelligencer 25, 35–44 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02984860
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