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Excerpt from Lessons on Rigid Dynamics
IT will be generally acknowledged, I think, that there is no subject of Natural Philosophy, equal in importance to that familiarly known as Rigid Dynamics, of which the study is so exclusively restricted to the more advanced students of Mathematics. Yet this restriction cannot be said to be necessary, for the treatment of the subject involves none of the higher mathematical methods; and it must be allowed 'oto be unfortunate, for the science of motion is the basis of Mechanical Engineering, and furnishes the explanation of Emany interesting terrestrial and cosmical phenomena. This restriction of the study is chiefly due to the fact that, while the conceptions and reasoning peculiar to the subject are somewhat difficult, the explanations of its lead ing principles, given in the books commonly used by stu dents, are for the most part very brief, and often, through brevity, obscure.
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