Newton's Law of Cooling/Historical Note

Historical Note on Newton's Law of Cooling

Isaac Newton applied this law to make an estimate of the temperature of a red-hot iron ball.

Although this approximation was somewhat crude, it was better than anything else up till then.

Sources

• 1972: George F. Simmons: Differential Equations ... (previous) ... (next): $1$: The Nature of Differential Equations: $\S 4$: Growth, Decay and Chemical Reactions: Problem $5$: Footnote $^1$