2000: "Newton's Dynamics: The Diagram as a Diagnostic Device," The Foundations of Newtonian Scholarship (Singapore: World Scientific), pp. 71-104.
2000: "Newton's Mature Dynamics: A Crooked Path Made Straight," Isaac Newton's Natural Philosophy (MIT University Press), pp. 105-137.
1995: Brackenridge, J. Bruce. The Key to Newton's Dynamics: The Kepler Problem and the Principia. Containing an English translation from the Latin by Mary Ann Rossi of Sections 1, 2, and 3 of Book One from the First (1687) Edition of Newton's Principia. (University of California Press).
1993: "Universal Gravitation from Elliptical Orbits," Hegel and Newtonianism (Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers), pp.415-427.
1992: "The Critical Role of Curvature in Newton's Developing Dynamics," The Investigation of Difficult Things: Essays on Newton and the History of the Exact Sciences (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), pp.231-261.
1985: "The Defective Diagram as an Analytical Device in Newton's Principia," Religion, Science, and Worldview: Essays in Honor of Richard S. Westfall (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), pp.61-95.
JOURNAL ARTICLES
2003: "Newton's Easy Quadratures ‘Omitted for the Sake of Brevity,'" Archive for History of Exact Sciences, in press.
1998: "The Role of Curvature in Newton's Dynamics," International Journal of Engineering Science (Chandrasekhar Commerative Edition), 36: 1361-1375.
1993: "The Locke/Newton Manuscripts Revisited: Conjugates, Curvatures, & Conjectures," Archives internationales d'historie des sciences, 43: 280-92.
1990: "Newton's Unpublished Dynamical Principles: A Study In Simplicity," Annals of Science, 1990, 47: 3-31.
1989: "Education in Science, History of Science, and the ‘Textbook,'" Interchange, 1989, 20: 71-80.
1989: "Newton's Mature Dynamics and the Principia: A Simplified Solution to the Kepler Problem," Historia Mathematica, 1989, 16: 36-45.
1988: "Newton's Mature Dynamics: Revolutionary or Reactionary," Annals of Science, 1988, 45: 451-476.
1987: "The Solution of the Direct-Problem of Central Forces in Newton's Principia," Proceedings of the International Conference on Newton and Science, The Academy of Sciences of the USSR (Moscow, 1987).
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