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OPENING ADDRESS BY SIR ROBERT S. BALL, LL.D., F.R.S., PRESIDENT OF THE SECTION. A Dynamical Parable. THE subject I have chosen for my address to you to-day has been to me a favourite topic of meditation for many years. It is that part of the science of theoretical mechanics which is usually known as the “Theory of Screws.”
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The British Association: Section A.: Mathematical and Physical Science. Nature 36, 424–429 (1887). https://doi.org/10.1038/036424a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/036424a0