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Celestial mechanics Newton’s laws of motion kinematics Hamilton’s principle kinetics electrogasdynamics ballistics law of inertia law of action and reaction recoil statics

Key People

Christiaan Huygens

Christiaan Huygens

Dutch scientist and mathematician

Engraved portrait of Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz with long curly hair, wearing a buttoned coat and cravat, facing forward.

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

German philosopher and mathematician

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Sir William Rowan Hamilton

Irish mathematician and astronomer

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Carl Jacobi

German mathematician

Italian physicist Guglielmo Marconi at work in the wireless room of his yacht Electra, c. 1920.

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