Essays in the History of Mechanics [E-Book] / by C. Truesdell.
This volume collects my shorter articles on the history of mechanics, some already published in various places, some revised from earlier papers, and some never published before. All of them began as lectures, and here they are printed as such, little changed from the last times I read them out to a...
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Personal Name(s): | Truesdell, C., author |
Imprint: |
Berlin, Heidelberg :
Springer,
1968
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Physical Description: |
XII, 384 p. 117 illus. online resource. |
Note: |
englisch |
ISBN: |
9783642866470 |
DOI: |
10.1007/978-3-642-86647-0 |
Subject (LOC): |
- I. The Mechanics of Leonardo da Vinci
- II. A Program toward Rediscovering the Rational Mechanics of the Age of Reason
- III. Reactions of Late Baroque Mechanics to Success, Conjecture, Error, and Failure in Newton’s Principia
- IV. The Creation and Unfolding of the Concept of Stress
- V. Whence the Law of Moment of Momentum ?
- VI. Early Kinetic Theories of Gases
- VII. Reactions of the History of Mechanics upon Modern Research
- VIII. Recent Advances in Rational Mechanics (1956)
- Index of Names
- Index of Subjects.