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THE review of Kennedy's “Mechanics of Machinery” in NATURE, December 29, 1887 (p. 195), strikes at least one responsive chord on this side of the world. There are some questions in reference to the nomenclature of dynamics which “will not down” until they are “downed” by a convention or agreement between those who have to do with the theory of mechanics and those who have to do mostly with practice, and in this some concessions will doubtless be necessary on both sides. While in hearty sympathy with much that the reviewer says in his discussion of dynamical terms (the book under notice I have not yet seen), I wish to dissent from and to protest against one of his leading propositions.
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MENDENHALL, T. Weight and Mass. Nature 37, 416 (1888). https://doi.org/10.1038/037416a0
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