Mechanica, sive Tractatus de Motu

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Mechanica, sive Tractatus de Motu

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John Wallis
His Mechanica, sive Tractatus de Motu (“Mechanics, or Tract on Motion”) in 1669–71 (three parts) refuted many of the errors regarding motion that had persisted since the time of Archimedes; he gave a more rigorous meaning to such terms as force and momentum, and he assumed…
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His Mechanica, sive Tractatus de Motu (“Mechanics, or Tract on Motion”) in 1669–71 (three parts) refuted many of the errors regarding motion that had persisted since the time of Archimedes; he gave a more rigorous meaning to such terms as force and momentum, and he assumed…
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