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THIS book is sure to arouse the interest of all who study the history of natural science, and it may cause a certain amount of controversy owing to the nature of its conclusions; but even if some of these have to be modified, enough will remain to shed a new light on the progress of mechanics in the middle ages. The main result, and this is established beyond all reasonable doubt, is that the mechanics of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries must not be regarded as a sudden achievement, but as a development of ideas current in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, many of which were unscrupulously reproduced without acknowledgment.
Les Origines de la Statique.
By P. Duhem. Vol. i. Pp. iv + 360. (Paris: A. Hermann, 1905.) Price 10 francs.
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M., G. Statics in the Middle Ages . Nature 73, ix (1905). https://doi.org/10.1038/0730ixa0
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