Abstract
THE appearance of a translation into English of this remarkable book should serve to revivify in this country the somewhat stagnating treatment of its subject, and should call up the thoughts which puzzle us when we think of them, and that is not sufficiently often. Prof. Mach isa striking instance of the combination of great mathematical knowledge with experimental skill, as exemplified not only by the elegant illustrations of mechanical principles which abound in this treatise, but also from his brilliant experiments on the photography of bullets, which have been recently elaborated and simplified by Mr. C. V. Boys.
The Science of Mechanics: a Critical and Historical Exposition of its Principles.
By Dr. Ernst Mach, Professor of Physics in the University of Prague. Translated from the second German edition by Thomas J. McCormack. (Chicago: The Open Court Publishing Co. London: Watts and Co., 1893.)
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GREENHILL, A. Historical Exposition of Mechanics. Nature 51, 49–52 (1894). https://doi.org/10.1038/051049a0
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