• DOI:10.1023/A:1022632600805
Corpus ID: 118508770

Newton's First Law: Text, Translations, Interpretations and Physics Education

@article{Galili2003NewtonsFL,
  title={Newton's First Law: Text, Translations, Interpretations and Physics Education},
  author={I. Galili and M. Tseitlin},
  journal={Science \& Education},
  year={2003},
  volume={12},
  pages={45-73}
}

• I. Galili, M. Tseitlin
• Published 2003
• Philosophy
• Science & Education

The translation from Latin of Newton's First Law (NFL) was considered in a historical perspective. The study showed that Newton's original yields two versions of complementary meanings, one temporal and the other quantitative. The latter is especially important in presenting the idea of inertia of massive bodies, and a new paradigm of understanding motion. The presentation of NFL in physics textbooks was reviewed and a decline in the status of NFL in the physics curriculum was noted. As a rule… Expand

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