What Was Mechanical about Mechanics: The Concept of Force Between Metaphysics and Mechanics from Newton to Lagrange

by Robert S. Cohen

The Age of Reason is left the Dark Ages of the history of mechanics. Clifford A. Truesdell) 1. 1 THE INVISIBLE TRUTH OF CLASSICAL PHYSICS There are some questions that physics since the days of Newton simply cannot an- swer. Perhaps the most important of these can be categorized as 'questions of eth- ics', and 'questions of ultimate meaning'. The question of humanity's place in the cosmos and in nature is pre-eminently a philosophical and religious...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9048159253
• ISBN13: 9789048159253
• Release Date: December 2010
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.93 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"