WRITERS of mathematical text-books on mechanics and of so-called applied mechanics have still much to learn from one another. A too excessive abstract and logical development of the subject by the one ...

Since the general recognition of physics as an experimental science, these methods have changed so much that, although one could not but admire the skill and perseverance shown in re-editing the older ...

Sam Baron receives funding from the Australian Research Council. The Matter of Everything tells the history of physics through experiments. Any book about the history of science for a general audience ...