R. S. Ball's Mechanics: bringing Newton to the masses?
In 1879, the Irish astronomer Robert Stawell Ball published a slim book entitled simply Mechanics [1]. This book appeared as part of the series of ‘London Science Class-Books’, published by Longmans, Green & Co. These books were intended as elementary science texts for use in schools, and, a...
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Cambridge University Press
2017
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