The science of mechanics; a critical and historical account of its development (1902)
Mach, Ernst, 1838-1916, McCormick, Thomas Joseph, 1865- tr · Chicago, The Open court publishing company; · leaf 333
d the like, but is unable, although he speaks of anaccelerated motion of descent, to reach perfect clear-ness with regard to the idea of force and consequentlyalso with regard to the composition of forces. In spite 3o6 THE SCIENCE OF MECHANICS. There- of this, however, he discovers Galileos theorem… … also a few propositions relating to the motion of thependulum, and has knowledge of centrifugal force andso on. Although Galileos Discmrses had appeared a THE EXTENSION OF THE PRINCIPLES. 307 year previously, we cannot, in view of the condition ofthings produced in Central Europe by the Thirty Years
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