A Dissertation on the Development of the Science of Mechanics

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Excerpt from A Dissertation on the Development of the Science of Mechanics: Being a Study of the Chief Contributions of Its Eminent Masters, With a Critique of the Fundamental Mechanical Concepts, and a Bibliography of the Science, Embodying Research Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor OfThe word mechanics, though it indicated of old the study of machines, has long since outgrown this limited meaning and now embraces the entire study of moving bodies, both large and small, suns and satellites, as well as atoms and mole cules. The phenomena of nature present to us a world of change through ceaseless motion. Mechanics is the Science of Motion as the physicist Kirchhoff has defined it, and has all natural phenomena for its field of investigation. Why things happen and how they happen are the questions that here present themselves.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.