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THIS book is vibrating with dynamical modernity, and proves in effect that Theoretical Dynamics has not yet been reduced to the level of one of the Exact Sciences; and so it shows little tendency to bridging over the gap still existing between the two modes of treatment of the one science of Mechanics. The two different methods are described by Newton in the preface of the “Principia”—
Theoretical Mechanics: an introductory treatise on the Principles of Dynamics, with applications and numerous examples.
By A. E. H. Love, Fellow and lecturer of St. John's College, Cambridge. Pp. xiv + 379. (Cambridge: at the University Press, 1897.)
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GREENHILL, A. Theoretical Mechanics: an introductory treatise on the Principles of Dynamics, with applications and numerous examples. Nature 58, 169–171 (1898). https://doi.org/10.1038/058169a0
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